Redemptive Reversals and the Ironic Overturning of Human Wisdom (Biblia.com)

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The Bible is full of ironic situations in which God overturns the world’s wisdom by doing the opposite of what is expected. In this new volume from respected New Testament scholar G. K. Beale, readers will see how God’s pattern of divine irony is exhibited in both judgment and salvation, finding its greatest expression in Jesus’s triumph over death through death on a cross. God has designed...

Luke’s narrative of the rejection of the gospel by the Jews is saturated with irony. In particular, Luke’s narration of the rejection of Jesus is mirrored by the depiction in Acts, where every effort to stand against God’s plan only fulfills it in every prophetic detail (e.g., see Acts 2:23 and 13:27). In Luke, the rejection of Jesus by the Jews is the catalyst for his redeeming death, whereas in Acts the persecution of the church becomes the catalyst for saving evangelism. Luke also develops the

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