The Passion Narrative of St Luke: A Critical and Historical Investigation

by Vincent Taylor , Edited by Owen E. Evans

• ISBN13: 9780521616928
• ISBN10: 0521616921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is the last of the late Vincent Taylor’s many notable contributions to NT scholarship and in particular to the controversy about the sources of St Luke’s gospel. Taylor defends and develops the arguments in favour of a non-Markan basis for Luke which he first presented in 1926 in Behind the Third Gospel. He answers critics of that book by a detailed study of the Passion Narrative and concludes that St Luke used, in this part of his gospel at least, a special source, an authority which was as old as Mark but independent of it and which preserved accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus given by the first Christians. The work has been edited and prepared for publication by a former pupil of Vincent Taylor’s, the Rev. Owen E. Evans. It should interest all specialists in NT studies as the last research of a distinguished scholar on a problem of continuing importance.

Table of Contents

Preface

Editorial Note

Abbreviations

Part I. Introduction: 1. Summary of critical opinion

2. Objections

3. Recent developments

4. Methods of gospel criticism

Part II. Analysis and Detailed Study of Luke XXII-XXIV: 5. The priests' plot

6. The treachery of Judas

7. Preparations for the Passover

8. The last supper

9. The prediction of the betrayal

10. The discourse on true greatness and the saying about twelve thrones

11. The exhortation to Simon

12. Then and now

13. The agony

14. The arrest

15. The denial

16. The mocking

17. The trial before the priests

18. The trials before Pilate and Herod

19. The journey to the cross

20. The crucifixion

21. The burial

22. The action of the women

23. The visit of the women to the tomb

24. The journey to Emmaus

25. The appearance to the Eleven

25. The ascension

Part III. The Special Lukan Passion Narrative: 26. Summary and conclusions

27. The text of the Passion source

28. The value of the special Lukan Passion narrative

Bibliography

Index.