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Lukan Theology in the Light of the Gospel’s Literary Structure is unavailable, but you can change that!

Luke’s Gospel was purposefully written with theology embedded in its patterned literary structure. A critical analysis of this cyclical structure provides new windows into Luke’s interpretation of the individual pericopes comprising the Gospel and illuminates several of his theological interests.

the structural analysis and may impair its validity”.10 Of course, if an author chooses to form a structure from heterogeneous elements, that is his prerogative; but biblical authors do not generally appear to do so, according to his observation. The elements of our proposed structure are all narrative features possessing a degree of similarity that lies well within the bounds illustrated by Bar-Efrat. Four levels of structural elements may be employed, and these constitute another of his guidelines:
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