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OverviewBorgman, Paul. The Way According to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts.

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.Craddock, Fred B. Luke. IBC. Louisville: John Knox, 1990.Danker, Frederick. Jesus and the New Age: A Commentary on St. Luke’s Gospel.

Rev. ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.Evans, C. F. Saint Luke. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990.González, Justo L. Luke. Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible. Lou-

isville: Westminster John Knox, 2010. Green, Joel B. The Theology of the Gospel of Luke. NTT. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1995.Knight, Jonathan. Luke’s Gospel. NTR. London: Routledge, 1998.Parsons, Mikeal. Luke: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. Peabody, MA: Hen-

drickson, 2007.Powell, Mark Allan. What Are They Saying about Luke? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist

Press, 1989.Ringe, Sharon H. Luke. WestBC. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995.Shillington, V. George. An Introduction to the Study of Luke-Acts. Harrisburg, PA:

Trinity Press International, 2007.Spencer, F. Scott. The Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles. Interpreting Biblical

Texts. Nashville: Abingdon, 2008.Talbert, Charles H. Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the

Third Gospel. Rev. ed. RNTS. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2002.Tannehill, Robert C. Luke. ANTC. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.Wright, N. T. Luke for Everyone. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.

Critical CommentariesBock, Darrell L. Luke. 2 vols. BECNT. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000.Bovon, François. Luke 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 1:1–9:50. Hermeneia.

Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2002. (Two more volumes are forthcoming.)Fitzmyer, Joseph. The Gospel According to Luke. 2 vols. AB 28, 28A. Garden City,

NY: Doubleday, 1981–1985.González, Justo L. Luke. BTCB. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010.Green, Joel B. The Gospel of Luke. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke. SP. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical

Press, 1991.Just, Arthur, Jr. Luke. 2 vols. ConcC. St. Louis: Concordia, 2000.Marshall, I. Howard. The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text. NIGTC.

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.Nolland, John. Luke. 3 vols. WBC 35A, 35B, 35C. Dallas: Word, 1989–1993.Tiede, David L. Luke. ACNT. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1988.

Academic StudiesAhn, Yong-Sung. The Reign of God and Rome in Luke’s Passion Narrative: An East

Asian Global Perspective. BIS 80. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

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Anderson, K. L. “But God Raised Him from the Dead”: The Theology of Jesus’ Resur-rection in Luke-Acts. PBM. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006.

Baban, Octavian D. On the Road in Luke-Acts: Hellenistic Mimesis and Luke’s Theology of the Way. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006.

Bailey, Kenneth E. The Cross and the Prodigal: Luke 15 through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005.

------. Finding the Lost: Cultural Keys to Luke 15. St. Louis: Concordia, 1992. Interprets the three parables in Luke 15 from the perspective of Middle Eastern culture and develops the thesis that this chapter is best understood in light of Psalm 23.

------. Jacob and the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel’s Story. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003.

------. Poet and Peasant; and, Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Ap-proach to the Parables in Luke. 2 vols. in 1. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983. An analysis of the literary structure of the Lukan parables combined with comments drawn from the author’s knowledge of Middle Eastern culture.

Barrett, C. K. Luke the Historian in Recent Study. London: Epworth, 1961. A classic survey of attitudes toward Luke as a historian, which concludes that the evangelist’s interest in biographical method is prompted by his rejection of Gnosticism.

Bartholomew, Craig G., Joel B. Green, and Anthony Thiselton, eds. Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation. SH 6. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.

Beavis, Mary Ann, ed. The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work, and Wisdom. Lon-don: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. A collection of studies on Luke 15:8–9.

Bock, Darrell. Proclamation from Prophecy and Pattern: Lucan Old Testament Christology. JSNTSup12. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987. Studies Luke’s use of the Old Testament in light of his christological interests.

Bøe, Sverre. Cross-Bearing in Luke. WUNT 2/278. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Provides a short history of the research on cross-bearing then narrows in on three key texts from Luke, concluding that in Luke one can only follow Jesus by bearing a cross.

Bonz, Marianne Palmer. The Past as Legacy: Luke-Acts and Ancient Epic. Min-neapolis: Fortress, 2000.

Bovon, François. Luke the Theologian. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2006. A survey of scholarship, originally published in 1978, with major updates through 1987, and minor updates since then.

Brawley, Robert L. Centering on God: Method and Message in Luke-Acts. LCBI. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1990. A literary-critical study of Luke-Acts that focuses on point of view, levels of reliability, reader response, narrative structure, characterization, textual gaps, cultural repertoire, and redundant antitheses.

------. Luke-Acts and the Jews: Conflict, Apology, and Conciliation. SBLMS 33. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987. Argues that Luke ties Gentile Christianity to Judaism and appeals to Jews to accept it as such.

Bridge, Steven L. “Where the Eagles Are Gathered”: The Deliverance of the Elect in Lukan Eschatology. JSNTSS 240. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.

Brodie, Thomas L. Proto-Luke: The Oldest Gospel Account; A Christ-Centered Synthesis of Old Testament History Modelled Especially on the Elijah-Elisha Narrative. Limerick, Ireland: Dominican Biblical Institute, 2006.


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Brown, Raymond E. The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke. Rev. ed. ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 1993. Includes an in-depth study of the background and compositional history of the Lukan infancy stories, as well as a verse-by-verse commentary on the first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel.

Brown, Schuyler. Apostasy and Perseverance in the Theology of Luke. AnBib 36. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1969. Studies Luke’s concept of temptation and faith and argues that the evangelist stresses the faithfulness of Jesus’ disciples so as to ensure a reliable transmission of apostolic tradition.

Buckwalter, H. Douglas. The Character and Purpose of Luke’s Christology. SNTSMS 89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Cadbury, Henry J. The Making of Luke-Acts. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999 [1927]. A classic study that treats Luke as an author in his own right and examines the literary process that resulted in his two works.

Carroll, John. Response to the End of History: Eschatology and Situation in Luke-Acts. SBLDS 92. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988. Emphasizes “unpredictability” as the main feature of Luke’s eschatological perspective and describes the manner in which Luke thus weds eschatology to parenetic interests and to his concept of salvation history.

Cassidy, Richard J. Jesus, Politics, and Society: A Study of Luke’s Gospel. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1978. Challenges Conzelmann’s thesis that Luke’s Gospel pres-ents Christianity apologetically to the Roman Empire by showing that the political and social stance of Jesus as presented in Luke would be viewed as threatening by Rome.

Cassidy, Richard J., and Philip J. Sharper, eds. Political Issues in Luke-Acts. Mary-knoll, NY: Orbis, 1983.

Chance, J. Bradley. Jerusalem, the Temple, and the New Age in Luke-Acts. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1988. Discusses the role that Luke believes Jerusalem and the temple are to play in the new age of salvation that has dawned.

Conzelmann, Hans. The Theology of St. Luke. Translated by Geoffrey Buswell. 2nd ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1960 [1957]. A classic synthesis of Luke’s theology by an outstanding redaction critic, with special focus on salvation history and eschatology.

Corley, Jeremy, ed. New Perspectives on the Nativity. London: T&T Clark, 2009. A collection of essays from various authors studying several aspects of the Matthean and Lukan infancy narratives.

Danker, Frederick W. Luke. 2nd ed. PC. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987. The stan-dard introduction to Luke’s Gospel used by many colleges and seminaries; emphasizes the work’s thematic unity and Hellenistic background, with particular attention to Christology and ethics.

Darr, John A. On Character Building: The Reader and the Rhetoric of Characteriza-tion in Luke-Acts. LCBI. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1992.

Dawsey, James M. The Lukan Voice: Confusion and Irony in the Gospel of Luke. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1988. Suggests that Luke uses the literary device of an “unreliable narrator” to create intentional irony in his narrative.

De Long, Kindalee P. Surprised by God. Praise Responses in the Narrative of Luke-Acts. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. Explores praise as a significant human response to key acts of God in the narrative of Luke-Acts.


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Dillon, Richard J. From Eye-Witnesses to Ministers of the Word: Tradition and Com-position in Luke 24. AnBib 82. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1978. A thorough exegetical study of the final chapter of Luke’s Gospel, with emphasis on the “mission focus” of the resurrection/ascension narrative.

Ðô, Maria Y. T. The Lucan Journey: A Study of Luke 9.28–36 and Acts 1.6–11 as an Architectural Pair. EUSS 23/895. Bern: Lang, 2010. Demonstrates how the Luke-Acts saga is framed as a journey, considering one pair of texts which indicate a relationship between Jesus’ missionary journey in Luke and that of the disciples in Acts.

Dornisch, Lorett. A Woman Reads the Gospel of Luke. Collegeville, MN: Liturgi-cal Press, 1996.

Downing, Elizabeth V. Taking Away the Pound: Women, Theology, and the Par-able of the Pounds in the Gospel of Luke. LNTS 324. London: T&T Clark, 2007.

Drury, John. Tradition and Design in Luke’s Gospel: A Study in Early Christian Historiography. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1976. An attempt at explaining the composition of Luke’s Gospel as a midrash on Mark, the Old Testament, and Matthew, without recourse to the hypothetical Q source.

Edwards, O. C. Luke’s Story of Jesus. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981. A delineation of the basic story line of Luke’s Gospel, which the author believes can be best understood in terms of fulfillment of prophecy.

Egelkraut, Helmuth L. Jesus’ Mission to Jerusalem: A Redaction Critical Study of the Travel Narrative in the Gospel of Luke, Luke 9:51–19:48. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1976. A study of the various passages in this central section of Luke and their parallels in the Synoptic tradition, with emphasis on the conflict motif in the Lukan material.

Ellis, E. Earle. Eschatology in Luke. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972. Presents a two-stage model (present and future) for understanding Luke’s concept of eschatology and salvation history.

Esler, Philip. Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts. SNTSMS 57. Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press, 1987. A study of Luke’s community that seeks to combine insights based on sociological research with those of redaction criticism.

Evans, Craig A., and James A. Sanders, Luke and Scripture: The Function of Sacred Tradition in Luke-Acts. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

Farris, Stephen. The Hymns of Luke’s Infancy Narratives: Their Origin, Meaning and Significance. JSNTSup 9. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985. Argues for pre-Lukan, Jewish-Christian origins of the Magnificat, Benedictus, and Nunc Dimittis, which nevertheless anticipate key themes that recur throughout Luke-Acts.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Luke the Theologian: Aspects of His Teaching. New York: Paulist Press, 1989. A collection of essays on a variety of themes, including authorship, the infancy narrative, Mary, John the Baptist, discipleship, Satan and demons, the Jewish people, and the thief on the cross.

Flender, Helmut. St. Luke: Theologian of Redemptive History. Translated by Regi-nald Fuller and Ilse Fuller. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1967 [1965]. Offers an alternative to Conzelmann’s view of salvation history and eschatology in Luke, proposing that Luke presents the exaltation of Jesus as the consum-mation of salvation in heaven.

Ford, J. Massyngbaerde. My Enemy Is My Guest: Jesus and Violence in Luke. Mary-knoll, NY: Orbis, 1984. Discusses Luke’s presentation of Jesus as an advocate


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of nonviolence, with special consideration of the political circumstances of the evangelist’s milieu.

Franklin, Eric. Christ the Lord: A Study in the Purpose and Theology of Luke-Acts. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975. An overarching study of such matters as Luke’s eschatology, Christology, and view of the Jews that tries to situate the evangelist within the mainstream of early Christianity.

Garrett, Susan R. The Demise of the Devil: Magic and the Demonic in Luke’s Writ-ings. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989. Argues that Luke intends to present Christ as triumphant over the “rulers of this world.”

Giblin, Charles Homer. The Destruction of Jerusalem According to Luke’s Gospel: A Historical-Typological Moral. AnBib 107. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1985. Proposes that Luke understands the fate of Jerusalem as a warning to society as to what can happen to those who reject Jesus.

Gillman, John. Possessions and the Life of Faith: A Reading of Luke-Acts. ZS. Col-legeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991. Explores Luke’s views on possessions and draws connections for the faith life of twentieth-century Christians.

Glen, Stanley. The Parables of Conflict in Luke. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962. Interprets selected Lukan parables in terms of their significance for con-temporary theology and especially for the practice of evangelism in the modern world.

Goulder, Michael D. Luke: A New Paradigm. 2 vols. JSNTSup 20. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.

Gowler, David B. Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend: Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke-Acts. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. Combines narrative criticism and sociological analysis in the study of the Pharisees as a character group in Luke’s two-volume story.

Grassi, Joseph. God Makes Me Laugh: A New Approach to Luke. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1986. GNS 17. A study of selected themes in Luke’s writings that utilize basic elements of comedy such as paradox and exaggeration.

———. Peace on Earth: Roots and Practices from Luke’s Gospel. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004.

Green, Joel B., ed. Methods for Luke. Methods in Biblical Interpretation. Cam-bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Explains and illustrates how four different exegetical strategies can be applied to texts from Luke: historical criticism, feminist criticism, narrative criticism, Latino interpretation.

Gregory, Andrew. The Reception of Luke and Acts in the Period before Irenaeus: Looking for Luke in the Second Century. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

Gregory, Andrew, and C. Kavin Rowe, eds. Rethinking the Unity and Reception of Luke and Acts. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Covers a wide range of topics concerning how best to understand the relationship between Luke and Acts.

Hamm, Dennis. The Beatitudes in Context: What Luke and Matthew Meant. ZS. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1990. Offers a preliminary discussion on the nature of beatitudes, followed by interpretations of the Lukan and Matthean beatitudes in the context of their respective Gospels.

Hartsock, Chad. Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts: The Use of Physical Features in Characterization. BI 94. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Treats physiognomy and blind-ness in the OT, Second Temple Judaism, and in the wider NT, arguing that blindness serves as a programmatic interpretive principle in Luke-Acts.


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Hatina, Thomas R., ed. Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels. Vol. 3, The Gospel of Luke. LNTS 376. New York: T&T Clark, 2010. A collection of studies focusing on Luke’s use of the Old Testament.

Hays, Christopher M. Luke’s Wealth Ethics: A Study in Their Coherence and Character. WUNT 2/275. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Studies apparent inconsisten-cies in prescriptive ethics regarding wealth in Luke-Acts, concluding that there is a coherent principle maintained throughout: Jesus’ disciples must renounce all possessions.

Hendrickx, Herman. The Infancy Narratives. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1975. A description and comparison of the infancy stories in Matthew and Luke.

Holmås, Geir Otto. Prayer and Vindication in Luke-Acts: The Theme of Prayer within the Context of the Legitimating and Edifying Objective of the Lukan Narrative. LNTS 433. New York: T&T Clark, 2011.

Horsley, Richard. The Liberation of Christmas: The Infancy Narratives in Social Con-text. New York: Crossroad, 1989. Focuses on the sociopolitical relationships portrayed in the infancy narratives and their implications for first-century Palestine and contemporary history.

Huffstetler, Joel W. Boundless Love: The Parable of the Prodigal Son and Reconcili-ation. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. Focuses on the major characters of the prodigal son story and finds the parable as a whole to be an integral part of a biblically-based theology of reconciliation.

Jervell, Jacob. Luke and the People of God. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1972. A col-lection of essays expounding the author’s view that Luke writes primarily for Jewish Christians, addressing their questions about relationships with other Jews and with Gentiles.

Johnson, Luke T. The Literary Function of Possessions in Luke-Acts. SBLDS 39. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1977. Suggests that Luke’s emphasis on pos-sessions has implications that go beyond the literal consideration of how to handle wealth.

Johnson, Marshall. The Purpose of the Biblical Genealogies. SNTSMS 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Analyzes the genealogies of Matthew and Luke and understands them to be a form of literary expression that is used to articulate the conviction that Jesus is the fulfillment of the hope of Israel.

Johnson, Steven R. Seeking the Imperishable Treasure: Wealth, Wisdom, and a Jesus Saying. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2008. Historical and redactional study of Matt. 6:19–20 and Luke 12:33.

Juel, Donald. Luke-Acts: The Promise of History. Atlanta: John Knox, 1983. A general introduction to Luke-Acts that, following Jervell, interprets the two-volume work within the framework of Jewish crisis literature.

Jung, Chang-Wook. The Original Language of the Lukan Infancy Narratives. JSNTSup 267. London: T&T Clark, 2007. Argues that Luke did not have a Hebrew or Aramaic source for his infancy narratives; he probably did have a Greek source that had been written in imitation of the Septuagint.

Karris, Robert J. Eating Your Way through Luke’s Gospel. Collegeville, MN: Liturgi-cal Press, 2006. A treatment of the food motif in Luke’s Gospel.

------. Luke, Artist and Theologian: Luke’s Passion Account as Literature. TI. New York: Paulist Press, 1985. A study of literary motifs in Luke’s Gospel and of their fulfillment in the passion narrative; the themes of “faithfulness,” “justice,” and “food” are emphasized.


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Keck, Leander, and J. Louis Martyn, eds. Studies in Luke-Acts. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980 [1966].

Kilgallen, John J. Twenty Parables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. SB 32. Rome: Editrice Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 2008. Provides expositions on twenty parables in Luke, placing them in the Gospel’s overall purpose.

Kingsbury, Jack Dean. Conflict in Luke: Jesus, Authorities, Disciples. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991. A narrative-critical examination of the plot of Luke’s Gospel, with emphasis on the story lines of its three principal characters.

Koet, B. J. Dreams and Scripture in Luke-Acts: Collected Essays. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 42. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.

Kuhn, Karl A. The Elite Evangelist. PSNBSF. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2010. Discusses the connection between literacy and social location in the Greco-Roman world and argues that understanding Luke’s elite social position helps us to understand countercultural thrust of his testimony.

Kwong, Ivan Shing Chung. The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded Messages. LNTS 298. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Levine, Amy-Jill, ed. A Feminist Companion to Luke. FCNTECW 3. Sheffield: Shef-field Academic Press, 2001. A collection of essays.

Litwak, Kenneth Duncan. Echoes of Scripture in Luke-Acts: Telling the History of God’s People Intertextually. JSNTSup 282. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Maddox, Robert L. The Purpose of Luke-Acts. SNTW. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1985 [1982]. Considers the various theories as to why Luke wrote his two works and decides that the best explanation is that he wished to reassure Chris-tians of the validity of their faith in response to Jewish criticisms.

Mallen, Peter. The Reading and Transformation of Isaiah in Luke-Acts. LNTS 367. London: T&T Clark, 2008.

Marshall, I. H. Luke: Historian and Theologian. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989. Argues that an appreciation for Luke’s interest in history is essential to a proper understanding of his theology, especially in regard to his con-cept of salvation.

Marshall, Jonathan S. Jesus, Patrons, and Benefactors: Roman Palestine and the Gospel of Luke. WUNT 2/259. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. Discusses Hellenistic reciprocity, friendship, and benefaction in Jesus’ social world, arguing that Jesus would have been more familiar with this system than that of Roman patronage.

Matson, Mark A. In Dialogue with Another Gospel? The Influence of the Fourth Gospel on the Passion Narrative of the Gospel of Luke. SBLDS 178. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Mattill, A. J. Luke and the Last Things: A Perspective for the Understanding of Lukan Thought. Dillsboro, NC: Western North Carolina Press, 1979. Argues that Luke expects the parousia to come soon and rallies Christians to ac-complish the mission they have been given.

Maxwell, Kathy Reiko. Hearing between the Lines: The Audience as Fellow-Worker in Luke-Acts and Its Literary Milieu. LNTS 425. New York: T&T Clark, 2010.

McComiskey, Douglas S. Lukan Theology in the Light of the Gospel’s Literary Structure. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004.

Mckenna, Meghan. Luke: The Book of Blessings and Woes. Hyde Park, NY: New City, 2009. Investigates the contemporary significance of the beatitudes


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and woes in Luke’s Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6:20–26), considering the reign of God as the seedbed of the beatitudes.

Méndez-Mortalla, Fernando. The Paradigm of Conversion in Luke. London: T&T Clark, 2004.

Metzger, James A. Consumption and Wealth in Luke’s Travel Narrative. BIS 88. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Minear, Paul. To Heal and to Reveal: The Prophetic Vocation According to Luke. New York: Seabury, 1976. Focuses on Luke’s understanding of Jesus as a prophet and of the disciples as prophets like Jesus.

Miura, Yuzuru. David in Luke-Acts: His Portrayal in the Light of Early Judaism. WUNT 2/232. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.

Moessner, David P., ed. Jesus and the Heritage of Israel. Vol. 1, Luke’s Narrative Claim upon Israel’s Legacy. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2000.

------. Lord of the Banquet: The Literary and Theological Significance of the Lucan Travel Narrative. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989. Studies the central por-tion of Luke’s Gospel by analyzing the relationship that the sayings of Jesus reported here have to the story of the journey to Jerusalem. Allusions to Deuteronomy are especially noted.

Moxnes, Halvor. The Economy of the Kingdom: Social Conflict and Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel. OBT. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988. A sociological analysis of the original context for Luke’s Gospel that provides a basis for social-political interpretations of many selected texts.

Mullen, J. Patrick. Dining with Pharisees. Interfaces. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004.

Nadella, Raj. Dialogue Not Drama: Many Voices in the Gospel of Luke. LNTS 431. New York: T&T Clark, 2011.

Nave, Guy D. The Role and Function of Repentance in Luke-Acts. SBLAcBib 4. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2002.

Navone, John. Themes of St. Luke. Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1970. A collection of studies on twenty important topics such as conversion, joy, prayer, and witness.

Neagoe, Alexandru. The Trial of the Gospel: An Apologetic Reading of Luke’s Trial Narratives. SNTSMS 116. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Neale, David A. None but the Sinners: Religious Categories in the Gospel of Luke. JSNTSup 58. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991. A study of the Pharisees and of “the sinners” as they are revealed in early Jewish literature in order to understand better Luke’s polarizing of these two groups in his Gospel.

Neyrey, Jerome H. The Passion According to Luke: A Redaction Study of Luke’s Soteriology. TI. New York: Paulist Press, 1985. Offers a complete exegetical study of Luke’s passion narrative, interpreting the presentation of Jesus as that of a new Adam whose faith is able to save others.

------, ed. The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991. A collection of articles from a conference of scholars using the insights and methods of cultural anthropology to study Luke’s Gospel.

Nuttall, Geoffrey F. The Moment of Recognition: Luke as Story-Teller. London: Athlone, 1978. The published form of a brief lecture that calls attention to Luke’s unusual skill at telling a story.

O’Toole, Robert F. The Unity of Luke’s Theology: An Analysis of Luke-Acts. GNS 9. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1984. A popular exposition of major


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themes in Luke’s theology, emphasizing God’s offer of salvation in Jesus and the anticipated response of Christians to this.

Park, Hyung Dae. Finding Herem? A Study of Luke and Acts in Light of Herem. LNTS 357. London: T&T Clark, 2007.

Parsons, Mikeal C. Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion of Physi-ognomy in Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

------. The Departure of Jesus in Luke-Acts: The Ascension Narratives in Context. JSNTSup 21. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987. Offers insights into Luke 24:50–53 and Acts 1:1–11 based on literary theories concerning be-ginnings and endings in literature.

Pilgrim, Walter E. Good News to the Poor: Wealth and Poverty in Luke-Acts. Min-neapolis: Augsburg, 1981. Interprets the Lukan material dealing with pos-sessions in terms of messages that the evangelist wants to send to both the rich and the poor.

Reid, Barbara E. Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke. College-ville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1996.

Resseguie, James L. Spiritual Landscape: Images of the Spiritual Life in the Gospel of Luke. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

Richard, Earl, ed. New Views on Luke and Acts. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1990.

Richardson, Neil. The Panorama of Luke. London: Epworth, 1982. A general introduction to Luke’s two works.

Rowe, C. Kavin. Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke. BZNW 139. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006.

Sanders, Jack. The Jews in Luke-Acts. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987. Offers exegeti-cal commentary on the key passages in Luke-Acts dealing with the Jews and concludes that the third evangelist is anti-Semitic.

Scaer, Peter J. The Lukan Passion and the Praiseworthy Death. NTM 10. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006.

Schottroff, Luise, and Wolfgang Stegemann. Jesus and the Hope of the Poor. Translated by Matthew J. O’Connell. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1986 [1978]. At-tempts to recover the theme of Jesus’ involvement with the poor that was present in the earliest Christian tradition and then traces the development of this theme in Q and Luke.

Schweizer, Eduard. Luke: A Challenge to Present Theology. Atlanta: John Knox, 1982. Emphasizes basic theological questions that Luke’s writings pose for systematic theology today.

Seccombe, David. Possessions and the Poor in Luke-Acts. SNTSU 6. Linz: Fuchs, 1982. Suggests that Luke’s treatment of this theme is an evangelistic ad-dress to persons whose devotion to wealth prevents them from accepting Christianity.

Senior, Donald. The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1989.

Sheeley, Steven. Narrative Asides in Luke-Acts. JSNTSup 72. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992. A literary-critical analysis of those passages in Luke-Acts where the narrator speaks directly to the reader.

Shepherd, William H. The Narrative Function of the Holy Spirit as a Character in Luke-Acts. SBLDS 147. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.


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Sloan, Robert B., Jr. The Favorable Year of the Lord: A Study of Jubilary Theology in the Gospel of Luke. Austin, TX: Schola Press, 1977. Studies the notion of Jubilee in Luke’s theology, with emphasis on eschatological dimensions of the theme.

Soards, Marion. The Passion According to Luke: The Special Material of Luke 22. JSNTSup 14. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1987. A redaction-critical analysis that concludes that the non-Markan material in Luke 22 can be attributed to Luke’s own free composition or to his reliance on oral tradition rather than to the use of another source.

Spencer, Patrick E. Rhetorical Texture and Narrative Trajectories of the Lukan Galilean Ministry Speeches: Hermeneutical Appropriation by Authorial Readers of Luke-Acts. LNTS 341. New York: T&T Clark, 2007.

Squires, John T. The Plan of God in Luke-Acts. SNTSMS 76. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Strelan, Rick. Luke the Priest: The Authority of the Author of the Third Gospel. Alder-shot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. Argues that the author of the third Gospel may have been a Jewish priest, with the authority to interpret the various traditions woven into the narrative, who believed Jesus to be God’s Lord and Christ.

Stronstad, Roger. The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke. Peabody, MA: Hendrick-son, 1984. A study of Luke’s presentation of the Holy Spirit and its work in the church.

Subramanian, J. S. The Synoptic Gospels and the Psalms as Prophecy. LNTS 351. New York: T&T Clark, 2007. Examines the manner in which each Synoptic Gospel treats the Psalms as prophecy.

Sweetland, Dennis M. Our Journey with Jesus: Discipleship According to Luke-Acts. GNS 23. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1990. A study of Luke’s concept of discipleship, with emphasis on its communal dimension.

Sydnor, William. Jesus According to Luke. New York: Seabury, 1982. A popular exposition that describes Luke’s portrayal of Jesus’ ministry as the time in which God’s promises of salvation are fulfilled.

Székely, János. Structure and Theology of the Lucan ‘Itinerarium.’ (Lk. 9.51–19.28). Budapest: Szent Jeromos Katolikus Bibliatársulat, 2008. Surveys a history of exegesis of the Lucan travel account, compares the outline of 1:1–9:51 to that of Mark’s Gospel, then narrows on the motif of shared meals as a central place where the church follows Jesus’ example and guidance.

Talbert, Charles H. Literary Patterns, Theological Themes, and the Genre of Luke-Acts. SBLMS 20. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1974. An analysis of the formal patterns that Luke uses in composing his two works and the implications that these have for their interpretation.

------, ed. Luke-Acts: New Perspectives from the Society of Biblical Literature. New York: Crossroad, 1984. A collection of essays.

------. Luke and the Gnostics: An Examination of the Lucan Purpose. Nashville: Abingdon, 1966. Argues that Luke wrote his Gospel to serve as a defense against Gnosticism.

------, ed. Perspectives on Luke-Acts. Danville, VA: Association of Baptist Profes-sors of Religion, 1978. A collection of essays.

------. Reading Luke-Acts in Its Mediterranean Milieu. NovTSup 107. Leiden: Brill, 2003.


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Tannehill, Robert. The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts: A Literary Interpretation. Vol. 1, The Gospel According to Luke. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986. A study of Luke’s Gospel as a continuous narrative that tries to interpret all of the individual episodes in terms of the story as a whole.

———. The Shape of Luke’s Story: Essays on Luke-Acts. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2005.

Tiede, David L. Prophecy and History in Luke-Acts. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980. Interprets Luke-Acts as an attempt to deal with the identity crisis faced by Jewish Christians following the destruction of Jerusalem.

Twelftree, Graham H. People of the Spirit: Exploring Luke’s View of the Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009. Presents Luke’s view of the purpose of the church: to proclaim and demonstrate the good news of God’s sal-vation in Jesus so that others might be saved and join the community of those who await Christ’s return.

Tyson, Joseph. The Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1986. A literary study of the way Jesus’ death is presented in these writings, with special emphasis on the development and resolution of conflict between Jesus and his opponents.

------, ed. Luke-Acts and the Jewish People: Eight Critical Perspectives. Min-neapolis, MN: Augsburg, 1988.

———. Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. Proposes that the book of Acts and the Gospel of Luke (in its final edition) were written in the second century, during the time of Marcion (ca. 120–125 CE).

Van Linden, Philip. The Gospel of Luke and Acts. MBS 10. Wilmington, DE: Mi-chael Glazier, 1986. A popular study that describes Luke’s concept of the spiritual life as a journey, with special emphasis on themes such as prayer, justice, and joy.

Verheyden, J., ed. The Unity of Luke-Acts. BETL 142. Leuven: Peeters, 1999.Verheyden, J., G. Van Belle, and J. G. van der Watt, eds. Miracles and Imagery

in Luke and John: Festschrift Ulrich Busse. BETL 218. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. A collection of essays on an assortment of signs, miracle narratives, and recurrent themes in Luke and John.

Wagner, Günter. An Exegetical Bibliography of the New Testament. Vol. 2, Luke and Acts. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1985.

Walaskay, Paul. “And So We Came to Rome”: The Political Perspective of St. Luke. SNTSMS 49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Argues that Luke intended his work to serve as an apology to the Christian church on behalf of the Roman Empire in the interests of improving church/state relations.

Walters, Patricia. The Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts: A Reassessment of the Evidence. SNTSMS 145. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Challenges the near-consensus view of scholars that Luke and Acts were written by the same author.

Wilson, Stephen G. The Gentiles and the Gentile Mission in Luke-Acts. SNTSMS 23. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. An in-depth analysis of this theme that suggests that Luke’s primary interest is to show how the incursion of Gentiles has taken place according to the will of God.


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------. Luke and the Law. SNTSMS 50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Argues that Luke conceives of the Jewish law as applicable only to Jewish people and thus as nonbinding for Gentile Christians.

------. Luke and the Pastoral Epistles. London: SPCK, 1979. A comparative analysis that suggests that the author of Luke-Acts also wrote the Pastoral Epistles.

Woods, Edward J. The Finger of God and Pneumatology in Luke-Acts. JSNTSS 205. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

Yamazaki-Ransom, Kazuhiko. The Roman Empire in Luke’s Narrative. LNTS 404. London: T&T Clark, 2010.

Ziccardi, Constantino A. The Relationship of Jesus and the Kingdom of God accord-ing to Luke-Acts. TGST 165. Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2008. Studies the relationship between Jesus and the kingdom of God in Luke-Acts as necessary, complex, and shaped by Jesus’ double identity as both the heir to David’s royal throne and the Son of God.


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7.18 Bibliography: The Gospel of Luke