Text to Text Pours Forth Speech Voices of Scripture in Luke Acts

Other scriptural voices can be heard in Luke-Acts. This book aims to help readers overhear such voices and uncover new levels of meaning in these essential texts. Brawley presents Luke-Acts as a sustained interplay of the story of Jesus and the early church with texts of Hebrew scripture, showing how explicit allusions evoke implicit voices. He employs some theories of intertextuality - notably those of Harold Bloom and Richard Hays - to demonstrate that a theocentric viewpoint controls Lucan dialogues with scripture.

"An excellent contribution to the developing study of intertextuality in biblical studies." --Religious Studies Review

"... a 'must' read for Luke-Acts scholars..." --Theology Today

"Makes important contributions to the study of Luke and Acts, biblical studies generally, and the growing body of literature on theory and method in biblical criticism.... [A] fine and provocative piece of work." --R. Alan Culpepper, Baylor University

"This book makes a valuable contribution to the study of intertextuality..." --Themelios

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-171) and index.

ROBERT BRAWLEY is Professor of New Testament at McCormick Theological Seminary and author of Luke-Acts and the Jews: Conflict, Apology, and Conciliation and Centering on God: Method and Message in Luke-Acts.

1. OUt of the Mouths of Texts and Intertexts

2. For the Blessing of All the Families of the Earth

3. Falling and Fitting Shoes: Mise en abyme and Voices of Scripture in Luke 20:9-19

4. Resistance tot he Carnivalization of Jesus' Crucifixion: Voices of Scripture in the Lucan Passion Narrative

5. Resisting a Carnivalesque Construct of World with the Carnivalesque and with Voices of Scripture: Acts 1:15-26

6. Hermeneutical Voices of Scripture in Acts 2

7. Revising Norms and Rehabilitating Jesus as Prominent in Acts 3-4

8. Acclaiming Prominents: Voices of Scripture in Acts 13

9. Their Vocie Goes Out through All Luke-Acts

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