world’s creation and Adam, “son of God,” while looking forward into the immediate future for “the universal restoration of all things.”2 Brilliance within Luke’s two-part narrative has been recognized: striking parables (the good Samaritan, the prodigal son); compelling real-life vignettes (Jesus calling Zacchaeus down from a tree in order to stay at the “sinner’s” home); and highly unconventional forays of Rabbi Jesus (an against-the-religious-rules visit to the home of two women for the purposes