The Ascension of Jesus Christ: A Critical and Exegetical Study of the Ascension in Luke-Acts and in the Jewish and Christian Contexts [PDF]
The aim of the present dissertation is to analyse and interpret the Ascension of Jesus as described in Luke-Acts, and to examine both the Jewish rapture traditions and the early Christian reception and interpretation of the Lukan accounts. In my research,
MIHOC, JUSTIN,ALEXANDRU
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Who Do You Say That I Am? (Matt 16:15; Mark 8:29; Luke 9:20): Christology in the Synoptic Gospels
This article investigates Jesus’s identity in the Synoptic Gospels by examining the Gospels’ literary features. I take a narrative approach to determine how the evangelists, in unique and shared ways, reveal to their audiences who Jesus is.
Brian Meldrum
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The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Aramaic as Constellation of Meaning
The article includes a comment on the passage of the Gospel of Luke 1, 26-38 (The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary), analyzing it verbatim based on the Syriac text of Peshitta with the transcription of the Khabouris Codex by Stephen P.
Vicente Haya
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Temple versus Household in Luke-Acts: A contrast in social institutions
This social-scientific study of Luke-Acts advances the thesis that in the Lucan economy of salvation, the Temple and the Household represent opposed types of social institutions and economic relations, only one of which, the Household, is capable of ...
J. H. Elliott
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Szabat w Łukaszowym opisie pierwszych cudów Jezusa w Kafarnaum (Łk 4, 31-44)
The fourth chapter of Luke’s Gospel ends with a description of the first miracles Jesus makes on a Sabbath day. In the synagogue in Capernaum, Jesus drives out a demon from a possessed man, then he heals Simon’s mother-in-law and performs many other ...
Piotr Przyborek
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Discípulos que no son discípulos. Mujeres como paradigma del laicado Lucas 8,1-3
The article intends to propose the discipleship of women in Lc 8, 1-3 as a paradigm of Discipleship lay, from a contextualization of the women in the first century. Methodologically a diachronic reading that wonders why the disciples who are disciples in
Mary Betty Rodríguez Moreno +1 more
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Ritual in the Damascus document and the Gospel of Matthew [PDF]
This thesis examines the ritual content of the Damascus Document and the Gospel of Matthew, demonstrating how community identity is constructed and developed through the interpretation of the Law represented in each.
Burt, Kathleen Helen
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Touching the Divine: Intra-action in the Gospel of Luke
In this article, two passages in which Jesus encounters women who touch him are juxtaposed with Karen Barad's theory of touch (Luke 7:36–50 and 8:43–49). It is shown that an interpretation in the light of critical posthumanism allows a new perspective on
Clarissa Breu
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Socio-rhetorical re-examination of Luke 9:51–56: Mission, migration, and nationalism
The conjoined themes of mission, migration, and nationalism are central issues in the Gospel of Luke. These essential motifs were amalgamated in a rhetorical composition to persuade implied readers to be mission-focused but accommodate the views of ...
Daniel N.A. Aryeh
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Other endings of Mark as responses to Mark : an ideological-critical investigation into the longer and the shorter ending of Mark's Gospel [PDF]
The Longer Ending and the Shorter Ending of Mark's Gospel are the ancient Markan readers' responses to Mark's Gospel. This leads us to the question of how the authors of these endings read their Mark's Gospel.
Yang, Jayhoon
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