New PDF release: Joy in Luke-Acts: The Intersection of Rhetoric Narrative and

By David Wenkel

This monograph explores the enjoyment subject in Luke- Acts because it pertains to the dynamics of rhetoric, narrative and emotion.

The Gospel of Luke has been referred to as the "gospel of joy", and the enjoyment subject matter has additionally been known in Acts. This topic, even though, has bought fairly little recognition in NT scholarship. pleasure in Luke-Acts examines the enjoyment subject from a socio-rhetorical vantage aspect, exhibiting that the enjoyment subject matter empowers the Lukan rhetoric of reversal. The subject is a main strategy within which the narrator seeks to cajole the reader to go into into the values and ideology that characterise the 'upside-down' international during which YHWH has visited his humans in Jesus.

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