Andrew Benko

Abraham, Ancestry, and Ethnicity in Luke's Gospel (eBook, PDF)

From These Stones

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What happens to the racial identity of those who follow Jesus? Abraham, Ancestry, and Ethnicity in Luke's Gospel: From These Stones explores how Luke employs the concept of ancestry-especially descent from Abraham-to recategorize believers and nonbelievers. Luke's use of the patriarch is informed by his function in Second Temple literature, as the ancestor of the Israel, but also the father of several other races, and a point of surprising contact between Jews and gentiles. In his gospel, Luke offers a new layer of ethnic identity to gentile believers, as adjunct members of Abraham's family tree.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978796850
• Artikelnr.: 75076936

Autorenporträt

Andrew Benko is Academic Dean of the Iona School for Ministry and serves as a priest in the Diocese of Texas (Episcopal).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From These Stones
Chapter 1: Ethnos and Racial Fluidity in Antiquity
Chapter 2: "The Rock from Which You Were Hewn": Abraham in Judean Racial
Reasoning
Chapter 3: "Our Ancestor Abraham": Abraham in the Infancy Narratives
Chapter 4: "We have a father-Abraham": Abraham as Ancestor and Ethnic
Founder in Luke
Chapter 5: Whose Ancestors? Genealogical Reconfiguration in Luke-Acts
Conclusion: Carving a New People from an Old Block
Bibliography
About the Author