Luke's Rhetorical Compositions

Luke''s Rhetorical Compositions offers new ideas in Lukan scholarship, especially in regard to Aelius Theon''s first-century rhetoric manual (Progymnasmata) and inter-textual, Lukan-Pauline, biblical studies. Two chapters deserve special mention: the material in chapter 3 is a groundbreaking discussion of Acts 2:38 in which its Greek verb tense speaks to the subsequent reception of the gift of the...