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The Formal Education of the Author of Luke-Acts
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Books > Scripture > Scripture Series
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| Author/Artist: |
STEVE REECE |
| ISBN / ID: |
9780567705921 |
| Publisher: |
Bloomsbury |
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PAPERBACK |
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AU$59.99 |
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Steve Reece proposes that the author of Luke-Acts was trained as a youth in the primary and secondary Greek educational curriculum typical of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Roman Imperial period.
Reece begins with a thorough examination of the Greek educational system during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, emphasizing that the educational curriculum was very homogeneous, and that children growing up anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean could expect to receive quite similar educations. His close examination of the Greek text of Luke-Acts has turned up echoes, allusions, and quotations of several of the very authors that were most prominently featured in the school curriculum- Homer, Aesop, Euripides, Plato, and Aratus.
This reinforces the view that Luke, along with other writers of the New Testament, lived in a cultural milieu that was influenced by Classical and Hellenistic Greek literature and that he was not averse to invoking that literature when it served his theological and literary purposes. |
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