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Echoes of Scripture in Luke-Acts: Telling the History of God’s People Intertextually is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

Luke’s Gospel. Kimball analyses eight pericopes in which ‘explicit OT citations appear within Jesus’ expository episodes as he teaches … and as he interacts with those opposed to his ministry and his interpretation of Scripture’.42 Kimball sees Luke using scriptural citations in multiple ways, including typology and a ‘debate commentary pattern’.43 Jesus used the Scriptures of Israel as the basis for his self-understanding, for teaching and for debating with his opponents. Jesus’ expositions in Luke
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