The Apologetic revisited [Elektronische Ressource] : exonerating Luke from an Ancestral Exegetical and Theological Burden / Innocent Emezie Ezeani. Betreuer: Bernhard Heininger

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• Publié par: julius-maximilians-universitat_wurzburg
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT WÜRZBURG
KATHOLISCH-THEOLOGISCHE FAKULTÄT







The Apologetic revisited:

Exonerating Luke from an Ancestral Exegetical and
Theological Burden






Inaugural Dissertation
zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines
Doktors der Theologie



Betreuer: Professor Dr. Bernhard Heininger
Zweitkorrektor: Professor Dr. Hans Rechenmacher



eingereicht von

Innocent Emezie Ezeani


Januar 2010 I
Table of Content


Chapter 1...............................................................................................................................1
1. Introduction to the theme of the Dissertation ...................................................................1
2. Justification of the Study ..................................................................................................2
3. Some research works in the course of years.....................................................................3
3.1 Conzelmann: Redaction criticism in Luke and the Apologetic........................................4
3.2 Yoder and Cassidy: Protagonists of a defiant Luke .........................................................6
3.3 Other works of recent years............................................................................................10
3.4 A shift in the Appeasement paradigm ............15
4. Relevant Biblical texts for the Dissertationtheme18
5. Methodological Approach ..............................................................................................21

Chapter 2.............................................................................................................................26
1. The Magnificat and the theme of power (Lk 1:4655) ...................................................26
1.1 Greek Text ......................................................................................................................26
1.2 English translation ..........................................................................................................26
2. The Context of the Magnificat...................26
2.1 Structure and Composition .............................................................................................27
2.1.1 Linguistic Proof for the structure ................................................................................28
2.2 Literary Genre.................................................................................................................30
2.3 Literary Criticism .............................32
3. Tradition and History......................................................................................................34
4. Some Literal constructions of immense importance ......................................................39
4.1 ἡ ταπείνωσις ..............................................39
4.2 ΦοβούFενοι του Θεοῦ .....................................................................................................42
4.3 Ὑπερήφανοι......................................................................46
4.4 καθεῖλεν δυνάστας ἀπὸ θρόνων ......................................................................................48
5. Redaction Criticism ........................................................................................................50
6. Conclusion ......................................................................................................................53

Chapter 3 ............................................................................................................................56
1. The Birth Narrative: Imperial edict and divine fulfilment .............................................56
1.1 Greek Text ......................................................................................................................56
1.2 English Translation ..............................................................57
2. The Context of the birth narrative .................................. ...............................................58
2.1 The Structure of the Text of the Birth narrative: Lk 2:120 ...........................................59
2.2 The literary Genre of the micro text ......................... .....................................................61
2.3 The literary development of the Text............................... ...................................62
3. ReligioHistorical Perspective .......................................................................................63
3.1 Imperial cult: A guide to the understanding of the Text.................................................63
3.1.1 The social and political Aspects of the Pax Romana ..................................................65
3.1.2 Εὐαγγελίζοαι .............................................................................................................66
3.1.3 The imperial Hegemony of the Roman Era ............................ ...................................68
3.2 Σωτήρ .............................................................................................................................69
3.2.1 Σωτήρ in Old Testament and Judaism ........................................................................71
3.3 Χριστός ..................................................72
3.4 Κύριος .............................................................................................................................74
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4. Lukan Profile and Theology...........................................................................................76
4.1 The Lukan use of the title “saviour”...............................................................................76
4.2 The Lukan use of Χριστός ..............................................................................................78
4.3 Lukan Theology and criticism of the Pax romana .........................................................80
5. Conclusion......................................................................................................................84

Chapter 4.............................................................................................................................88
1. The second item of the Temptation of Jesus (Lk 4:58).................................................88
1.2 Greek Text ......................................................................................................................88
1.3 English Translation.........................................................................................................88
2. The Context of the Temptation pericope .......................................................................88
2.1 The compositional structure of the temptation pericope ................................................89
2.2 Synoptic comparison of the Lukan and Matthean Accounts .........................................90
2.2.1 Historical and relational Questions .............................................................................92
2.2.2 A hypothetical reconstruction of the Q version ..........................................................96
3. History and Tradition......................................................................................................97
3.1 A traditional and historical consideration of the Lukan redaction .................................97
3.1.1 οἰκουFένη ....................................................................................................................97
3.1.2 Ἐξουσία.......................................................................................................................98
3.1.3 προσκυνεῖν ................................................................................................................101
4. The political Theology of Luke in the temptation Account .........................................104
4.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................104
4.2 The social and cultural context of the Temptation Account in Luke ...........................104
4.3 The political and theological message in the Temptation pericope of Luke................111
5. Conclusion......................................................................................................................113

Chapter 5...........................................................................................................................116
1. The Parable of the throne claimant (Lk 19:1128) .......................................................116
1.1 Greek Text .....................................116
1.2 English Translation.......................................................................................................117
2. The Context of the parable ...........................................................................................118
2.1 Structure and Language ................................................................................................119
2.2 Literary Genre...............................................................................................................122
2.3 Synoptic Comparison ............................124
2.4 Literary Criticism .....................................