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Renowned New Testament scholar Mikeal Parsons offers a practical commentary on Luke that is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the texts. This commentary proceeds by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Students, pastors, and other readers will appreciate the historical, literary, and theological...

not required in every encomium (the progymnasmatists do not even agree on the list of topics), but they do recur with a remarkable frequency in ancient biography (e.g., Plutarch, Parallel Lives; Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana; Philo, On the Life of Moses; Josephus, The Life; cited by Martin 2008; see also Hock 1995, 15–20, on the Protevangelium of James). These encomiastic features provide a convenient way of understanding the general flow of Luke’s narrative. In line with the progymnastic
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