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The Formal Education of the Author of Luke-Acts (Hardcover)
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The Formal Education of the Author of Luke-Acts (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
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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, where he gained familiarity with the Classical and
Hellenistic authors whose works were the focus of study. He makes a
case for Luke's knowledge of these authors internally by
spotlighting the density of allusions to them in the narrative of
Luke-Acts, and externally by illustrating from contemporary
literary, papyrological, and artistic evidence that the works of
these authors were indeed widely known in the Eastern Mediterranean
at the time of the composition of Luke-Acts, not only in the
schools but also among the general public. 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, at least at the
primary and secondary levels, 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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