The Preface to Luke's Gospel

by Loveday Alexander

Luke's two-volume work begins with a formal preface unlike anything else in the New Testament, and it has long been academic orthodoxy that Luke's choice of style, vocabulary, and content in this short passage reveal a desire to present his work to contemporary readers as 'History' in the great tradition of Thucydides and Polybius. This study challenges that assumption: far from aping the classical historians, Dr Alexander argues, Luke was simply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521018811
• ISBN13: 9780521018814
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"