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John the Baptist as a Rewritten Figure in Luke-Acts book cover

1st Edition

John the Baptist as a Rewritten Figure in Luke-Acts

By Christina Michelsen Chauchot Copyright 2021
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge
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John the Baptist as a Rewritten Figure in Luke-Acts compares the Gospel of Luke’s account of John’s ministry with those of Matthew, Mark, and John to make the case for the hypertextual relationship between the synoptic gospels. The book is divided into three parts. Part I situates the Gospel of Luke within the broader context of biblical rewritings and makes the general case that a rewriting... Read more

Part I: The Gospel of Luke as a Biblical Rewriting

Introduction

1. Introducing the Concept of Rewritten Bible as an Interpretive Matrix in New Testament Studies

2. The Synoptic Problem and Gospel Interpretation

3. Detecting a Rewriting Strategy in Luke’s Gospel: Purpose and Methods

Part II: Luke's Characterization of John the Baptist　

4. Analysis of John the Baptist Narratives in Luke-Acts by application of a Rewriting Perspective

5. Luke’s Presentation of John’s Identity (Lk 3:2)

6. Discussion of John’s Authority (Lk 3:7-17)

Part III: From John's Baptism to the Community's Messianic Baptism in Luke-Acts

7. The Quality of John’s Baptism Rite (Lk 3:16)

8. Jesus’ baptism (Lk 3:21-22)

9. Three Distinguished Baptisms

10. Conclusion

Biography

Christina Michelsen Chauchot holds a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a pastor of the United Protestant Church of France; vice-president of the Institut Biblique de Versailles; and a lecturer in Scandinavian languages at the Sorbonne University, Paris.

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