Hearing the Silence: Jesus on the Edge and God in the Gap- Luke 4 in Narrative Perspective

by Longenecker, Bruce W.; Rowe, C. Kavin

• ISBN13: 9781610972291
• ISBN10: 1610972295
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

In this refreshingly unique book, Bruce Longenecker demonstrates that reading Luke's narrative is richly enhanced through attentiveness to what is tantalizingly left out of the Lukan narrative. In Hearing the Silence, the reader is invited to delve deeply into literary and theological dimensions of the Lukan narrative through an exploration of Jesus' strangely under-narrated escape in Luke 4:30. The options for interpreting the mechanics of that curious event are brought into dramatic relief by Longenecker's survey of the scene's reconstruction in Jesus-novels and Jesus-films, in which a variety of strategies have been employed to iron out the scene's narrative oddity. Against their backdrop, Longenecker's own constructive proposals bring the reader into direct contact with some of the most significant features of the Lukan Gospel and worldview.

Author Biography

Bruce W. Longenecker is Professor of New Testament and the W. W. Melton Chair of Religion in the Department of Religion at Baylor University, Texas.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Imaging Gaps: Holes in the Holy Text	p. 1
Framing the Issue: The Gap in Nazareth	p. 14
Navigating Strategies: Novel Imagination to the Rescue	p. 24
Discovering Patterns: Luke 4:30 and Divine Causality	p. 38
Engaging the Audience: Subtlety as Strategy	p. 61
Releasing the Captives: Eucatastrophe in Jesus-Novels	p. 72
Constructing Arcs: The Christological Fulfillment of Psalm 91	p. 84
Narrations of Acts 14:19-20	p. 113
What if Luke 22:43-44 is Original to Luke's Gospel?	p. 117
Luke's Christological Interpretation of Psalm 91:13	p. 120
Bibliography	p. 125
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 131
Index of Authors	p. 137
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