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The Spiral Gospel: Intratextuality in Luke's Narrative

Name: The Spiral Gospel: Intratextuality in Luke's Narrative
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Author: Rob James
ISBN: 9780227178164

Intratextuality in Luke's Narrative

by Rob James

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200 pages
Publisher: James Clarke Company
15.5 x 23.3 x 1.4 cm

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For students of the Gospel of Luke

Explains a cyclical method for reading Luke

Helps you find deeper meaning in the text

Discover how reading Luke's Gospel as a continuous, cyclical narrative can transform your understanding of faith.

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How did the author of the Gospel of Luke intend it to be read? In The Spiral Gospel, Rob James shows that the assumptions many modern readers bring to the text - that it claims to be historically factual, or merely regurgitates existing stories - are not those of antiquity. Building on the central insight that it was written for a community who would have used it as their pre-eminent text, James argues convincingly for a continuous, cyclical reading of Luke's narrative. The evidence for this view, and also its consequences, can be seen in the gospel's intratextuality. Context is given at the end of the gospel that informs the beginning, and there are countless other intratextual elements throughout the text that are most readily noticeable on a second or subsequent reading. This deliberate, creative interweaving on the author's part opens up new levels of appreciation and faith for those who read in the way Luke's first audience received his work.