Echoes of Scripture in Luke-Acts: Telling the History of God’s People Intertextually (Biblia.com)

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Litwak challenges previous studies of the use of the Old Testament in Luke-Acts as inadequate. In contrast to previous studies that consider only quotations or obvious allusions, he examines intertextual echoes of the Old Testament at strategic points in Luke-Acts, as well as quotations and allusions and echoed traditions. Thus, this study’s database is larger. Previous studies generally argue...

Messiah provides the information necessary for the disciples to understand the Scriptures correctly, to say ‘Aha, now we understand’. Scripture is ‘understood as the revelation of God’s purpose in Jesus’,7 which can only then be understood against the background of Jesus’ experience. Jesus uses his own life, death and resurrection to point backwards into the Scriptures of Israel to interpret them, making sense of Israel’s sacred traditions through his own experience, not vice-versa. Both in Lk. 24:25–27

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