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This highly original commentary on the Gospel of Luke is unique for the way it combines concerns with first-century culture in the Roman world with understanding the text of Luke as a wholistic, historical narrative. Focusing primarily on how each episode functions within Luke’s narrative development, Joel B. Green provides countless fresh perspectives on and new insights into the Third Gospel....

position is somewhat different. He is not so much concerned with the technology of prayer as he is with the shaping of prayer in relation to an accurate recognition of the one to whom prayer is offered. That is, Luke shaped this narrative unit not with an eye to the “how-to” of pray, but with a central emphasis on the worldview leading to and informing prayer. Hence, although vv 5–13 are tied to vv 2–4 linguistically—through repeated references to “bread” (vv 3, 5) and the transformation of the verb
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