The Ongoing Feast (Pueblo Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)Luke 24 is one of my favorites, and Just does admirably well in tracing through table fellowship as an expression of eschatological kingdom.
The pattern that develops is sacramental and incarnational, centering of course on Christ. Thus, Christology is front and center and prominent.
The author finds five meal sequences in Luke's Gospel which he thus harmonizes and develops into its fullness in Jesus opening the eyes at the Emmaus meal.
Will benefit anyone serious about contemplating the meaning of the Easter event as well as Good Friday and communion koinonia today from the Lukan viewpoint.

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Abingdon New Testament Commentary - Luke (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries) Review

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(More customer reviews)Con este libro Tannehill demuestra que se puede escribir un buen comentario bíblico, de gran interes y buena calidad, sin que por ello haga falta escribir demasiadas páginas, ni perderse en tecnicismos. El de Tannehill es un comentario sencillo y claro, poco (o nada) técnico, y bien escrito, todo lo cual hace que sea un comentario de fácil y agradable lectura, al alcance de toda persona interesada y con un nivel de formación mínimo en estudios bíblicos. Pero, además, a pesar de su marcado carácter divulgativo, "Luke" de Tannehill es un comentario de calidad; el esquema que sigue a la hora de analizar las unidades y perícopas del evangelio es claro y ordenado, y la información que proporciona para comprender los textos es correcta - tanto por su cantidad como por su calidad - util, y llena de sugerencias interesantes en lo referente a la interpretación de no pocos pasajes. En este sentido Tannehill nos ofrece un comentario realmente práctico y adecuado para entender y profundizar en el mensaje del evangelio de Lucas. Todo ello lo convierte en un comentario especialmente recomendable para quienes deseen emprender un estudio serio de dicho evangelio y no puedan, o no quieran, acudir a otros comentarios mas extensos y técnicos; pero también en un comentario que, sin duda, no defraudará a los especialistas.
Sin embargo, una vez señaladas sus enormes virtudes, conviene también señalar algunos puntos en los que la obra podría ser mejorada de cara a posibles próximas ediciones: Por una parte, sería aconsejable ampliar un poco más el tratamiento de las cuestiones introductorias (autor, fecha de composición, estructura, fuentes...). Por otra parte, incluir el texto del evangelio sería una buena idea, ya que se ganaria mucho en comodidad a la hora de leer la obra. Finalmente, una revisión del precio de la obra a la baja también sería aconsejable, para que este fuere más acorde con el carácter divulgativo de la obra.

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The Abingdon New Testament Commentaries series offers compact, critical commentaries on the writings of the New Testament. These commentaries are written with special attention to the needs and interests of theology students, but they will also be useful for students in upper-level college or university settings, as well as for pastors and other church leaders. In addition to providing basic information about the New Testament texts and insights into their meanings, these commentaries exemplify the tasks and procedures of careful, critical exegesis.

In this volume, Robert C. Tannehill focuses on the significance of the Gospel of Luke in its final form for its original audience. Drawing on his own extensive previous work on Luke as a literary narrative as well as on recent studies of the ancient Mediterranean social world, Tannehill suggests that modern readers will find that certain features of Luke's Gospel only take on significance-or deeper significance-when matched with an appropriate historical and cultural context in the first century.

'This commentary is designed to meet the needs of sophisticated nonspecialist students of the Bible. The evangelist's literary genius, frequently displayed in multivalent diction and imagery, finds in Robert Tannehill a faithful and sensitive interpreter. Social-scientific criticism, use of cultural anthropology, and frequent correction of renderings in the New Revised Standard Version appear without undue intrusiveness. This is a work well done." -Frederick W. Danker, Christ Seminary-Seminex/ Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

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The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts: A Literary Interpretation, Vol. 1: The Gospel According to Luke (Foundations and Facets) (English and Greek Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Robert C. Tannehill's monograph, The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts: A Literary Interpretation (Volume 1: The Gospel of Luke) is a commentary on the narrative unity of the Lukan narratives, examining how the text's individual narrative units contribute to accomplish Luke's overarching purpose to demonstrate God's redemptive plan through Christ and his followers. Recent developments in biblical and non-biblical literary narrative criticism have allowed the author to examine the Lukan texts from a new perspective, offering insights into the language, patterns, contrasts, ironies, pathos, and many other features that make up the literary whole. Tannehill's effort to probe the text through the lens of narrative criticism reappraises some of the familiar dominant themes in Luke, further enhancing the understanding of the text and illuminating previously uncharted narrative trajectories and progressions of Lukan thought.
Similar to the other Synoptics, the Gospel of Luke is written in a vivid, episodic style, yet with little apparent linkage to the sequence of the story as a whole. From Luke's second volume, it is clear that the author is proficient at stringing together common themes and producing a coherent story, yet the low contextual nature of the Gospel narrative appears to leave significant gaps in the story, leaving modern readers without a seamless understanding of the unity of the narrative. However, after careful analysis of the plot and major characters, a single controlling purpose emerges- the purpose of God, connecting the individual episodes and creating a rich literary tapestry that enhances the understanding of unity of the text and its interpretation.
To assist in unravelling the complexity of the narrative connections and elucidating an interpretive context for understanding the mission of Jesus and his witnesses, Tannehill explores key literary disclosures that function as signposts, providing direction through the narrative maze and enabling the identification of various thematic routes within the text. Special attention is given to a wide range of individuals and groups encountered in the narrative and Jesus' developing relationships with these groups or individuals. The author examines Jesus' ministry to the oppressed and excluded, his interactions with the crowd, his encounters with authorities, and his relationships with the disciples and followers. Avoiding technical terms of literary theory employed by other commentaries, Tannehill seeks to enliven Luke's literary design to achieve narrative and ideological progression and emphasize how the narrative rhetoric unfolds to effectively communicate how God's purposes are accomplished in the world.


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