This dissertation seeks to explore how Luke's socio-literary context may have
impacted his use of authoritative citation. However, we must first seek to discern what
that context is and specifically what genre Luke followed in composing the Third Gospel.
Most biblical scholars place Luke, along with the other canonical Gospels, among the
Greco-Roman ~iot of the ancient world. While biographical and historical literature have
many overlapping formal features as instances of historically oriented Greek narrative
discourse (isolated esp. through Burridge's detection criteria), chapters 2-3 ofthis
dissertation argue that Luke's Gospel aligns more closely with ancient history than with
βioς on the basis of seven disambiguation criteria: (1) preface length ratio, (2) βioς
language in the preface, (3) attestation to event-participant orientation, (4) transition into
the narrative body, (5) the placement of family tradition, (6) citation density, and (7)
citation strategy. Having argued that Luke resembles ancient history more closely than
βioς, chapter 4 then seeks to develop a method for interpreting authoritative citation in
Greek history. Chapters 5-6 apply this method to the Greek historians both co-textually
and contextually. Chapters 7-9 apply the same method to Luke's Gospel and conclude
that Luke exhibits remarkable similarities with the Greek historians in his authoritative
citation strategies. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/22433 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Pitts, Andrew |
| Contributors | Porter, Stanley, Westfall, Cynthia, Christian Theology |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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