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The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts: A Literary Interpretation, Volume 1: The Gospel according to Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Tannehill shows how the narrative contributes to the impact of Luke’s literary whole. The study further shows that Luke’s use of recurring words, patterns of repetition and contrast, irony, pathos, and many other features of this narrative contribute to the total fabric of Luke’s masterpiece.

Luke-Acts is the longest and most complex narrative in the New Testament. It was written by an author of literary skill and rich imagination who had a complex vision of the significance of Jesus Christ and of the mission in which he is the central figure. This complex vision is presented in a unified literary work of two volumes. Because of its size and complexity, it is difficult to comprehend Luke-Acts as a unified literary work. This problem has been aggravated by a lack of leading
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