The Gospel According to Luke: Volume I (Luke 1-9:50)

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In this fourth volume of the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity, Michael Wolter provides a detailed, verse-by-verse interpretation of the Third Evangelist. His commentary shows that Luke succeeds in preserving the history of Jesus and its theological impact and that this history stands on equal footing with the history of early Christianity. Wolter's thorough, careful reading follows Luke as the Evangelist seeks to explain how the fulfillment of the Old Testament promises of God for Israel results in a parting of the ways between the Christian church on the one side and Judaism on the other. Scholars and students alike will benefit from access to new German scholarship now available to English-language audiences. Published in the US by Baylor University Press, Waco. Cover Title Page Contents Editors’ Preface Author’s Preface to the English Edition Author’s Preface to the German Edition Introduction 1. Textual Tradition and Early Reception 2. Author, Date, and Provenance 3. Sources 4. The Lukan Story of Jesus as an Episodic Narrative 5. Intended Readers 6. The Theological Place of the Story of Jesus in Luke–Acts 1.1-4: Proem 1.5-79(80): “In the days of Herod, the King of Judea” 1.5-7: Exposition 1.8-25: The Announcement of the Birth of John the Baptist 1.26-38: The Announcement of the Birth of Jesus 1.39-56: Elisabeth’s Blessing and Mary’s Praise of God 1:57-79(80): The Birth of John, His Name, and His Father’s Praise of God 2.1-39(40-52): “. . . when Quirinius ruled over Syria” 2.1-3: Exposition 2.4-21: Bethlehem 2.22-39: Jerusalem 2.40-52: Jesus as a Wise Boy 3.1-20: John the Forerunner 3.21–4.13: The Presentation of Jesus as Son of God 3.21-22: Spirit Anointing and Proclamation 3.23-38: Genealogy 4.1-13: Testing 4.14-44: The Beginning in Galilee 4.14-15: Exposition 4.16-30: Nazareth 4.31-41: Capernaum 4.42-44: Departure to Further Proclamation of the Reign of God 5.1–6.49: The Proclamation of the Reign of God in the Jewish Land 5.1-11: The Miraculous Catch of Fish and the First Disciples 5.12-16: The Cleansing of a Leper 5.17–6.11: Controversy Dialogues over Various Themes 5.17-26: Authority to Forgive Sins 5:27-39: Eating and Drinking 6.1-5: Sabbath I 6.6-11: Sabbath II 6:12-49: The Sermon on the Plain 6.12-19: Scenic Preparation 6.20-49: The Speech of Jesus 6.20-26: Beatitudes and Woes 6.27-38:The Nullification of the Principle of Ethical Reciprocity 6.39-49: “He also told them a parable speech” 7.1-50: In Capernaum and in Nain 7.1-10: The Faith and the Slave of the Centurion 7.11-17: The Son of the Widow 7.18-35: Jesus and John the Baptist 7.18-23: Who Is Jesus? 7.24-28: Who Is John? 7.29-35: Jesus’s Judgment about His and the Baptist’s Contemporaries 7.36-50: The Pharisee and the Woman Sinner 8.1–9.50: The Preparation for the Journey to Jerusalem 8.1-3: Jesus and His Followers on a Peregrination of Proclamation 8.4-21: On the Proper Hearing of the Word 8.4-8: The Parable of the Fate of the Seed 8.9-18: The Interpretation of the Parable for the Disciples 8.19-21: Jesus’s Mother and His Brothers 8.22-56: Further Demonstrations of Jesus’s δύναμις and ἐξουσία 8.22-25: Jesus’s Power over Wind and Water 8.26-39: Jesus’s Power over a Legion of Demons 8.40-56: Jesus’s Power over Sickness and Death 9.1-36: The Preparation of the Disciples for Discipleship 9.1-6: The Commission of the Twelve 9.7-9: The Perplexity of Herod 9.10-17: The Disciples Make the People Satiated 9.18-22: The Christological Insight of the Disciples and Jesus’s First Announcement of the Passion and the Resurrection 9.23-27: Instruction in Discipleship 9.28-36:The Revelation of the δόξα of Jesus before the Disciples 9.37-50: The Inability of the Disciples 9.37-45 . . . at the Driving Out of an Epilepsy Demon 9.46-50: . . . and Also Otherwise Bibliography