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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...

narrative unity is the theme of rejection, running from Luke 4 to Acts 28.95 Denova argues that the view that Luke used the Scriptures of Israel strictly as an apologetic device flounders over the problem of why Luke continued to ‘rely upon Scripture for a story that would seem to have no relevance for the community of his day (i.e., the Gentile Christian “audience” of Acts)’.96 Denova seems to be saying that other scholars err in treating Luke’s use of Scripture as justifying the inclusion of Gentiles
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