The Gospel According to Luke (BN9050P)

Content

This unit will offer an in-depth exegetical study of Luke’s gospel placing it in the historical and literary culture of the late first century CE. We will examine themes of inclusion and exclusion in the gospel, tracing who is included/excluded through the lenses of gender norms (both ancient and modern), ethnicity, religious identity and hospitality (the social conventions of Graeco-Roman meal culture). Attention will be given to Luke’s theology as it relates to salvation, prophecy, atonement, resurrection, eschatology and justice and how this theology speaks to the contemporary church and world.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Earliest Christianity or equivalent NT Introduction

Pedagogy

Lectures, seminars, discussion groups, and online forums.

Indicative Bibliography

• Byrne, Brendan S.J. The Hospitality of God: A Reading of Luke’s Gospel (Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press, 2000)
• Carroll, John T. Luke: A Commentary (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012)
• Green, Joel (ed.) Methods for Luke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina, (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1991)
• Levine, Amy-Jill (ed), A Feminist Companion to Luke (London: Sheffield Academic, 2002).
• Neyrey, Jerome (ed). The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation.
• Parsons, Mikeal, Luke: Paideia Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015)
• Smith, Dennis E., and Hal Taussig, eds. Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
  
• Sugirtharajah, R. S (ed.) Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World. ( Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 2006)
• Tannehill, Robert, The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts : A Literary Interpretation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1990)
• Wilson, Brittany E. Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Assessment