Spring 2015/Pasadena
NT823
Green
NT823: CRITICAL ISSUES IN LUKE-ACTS (6 Units: 391 hours). Joel B. Green.
DESCRIPTION: This seminar comprises an examination of classical and contemporary study of Luke-Acts. Participants will work with selected texts drawn from Luke’s narrative and with representative secondary studies of the Lukan material.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Having successfully completed this course will have demonstrated the ability (1) to reflect critically on a range of critical issues — literary, socio-historical, and theological — central to the study of Luke-Acts; (2) to work comfortably with the Greek text of Luke-Acts; (3) to engage in advanced-level, original-language exegesis of narrative texts like Luke-Acts; and (4) to design and carry out a research project on a selected pericope in Luke-Acts.
COURSE FORMAT: This seminar meets weekly for three-hour sessions for a total of 30 instructional hours, with class time devoted to short lectures, student presentations, and work with texts from Luke-Acts
REQUIRED READING:
Anderson, K.L. ‘But God Raised Him from the Dead’: The Theology of Resurrection in Luke-Acts. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Paternoster, 2006. ISBN: 978-1842273395, Pub. Price $49.99 [372 pp.); or Wipf & Stock, 2007. ISBN: 9781556352379, Pub. Price $47.00 [392 pp.].
Brawley, R.L. Text to Text Pours Forth Speech: Voices of Scripture in Luke-Acts. ISBL. Indiana University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780253329394, Pub. Price: $27.95 [192 pp.].
Buckwalter, H.D. The Character and Purpose of Luke’s Christology. SNTSMS 89. Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521018876, Pub. Price $ 74.99 [368 pp.].
Cadbury, H.J. The Making of Luke-Acts. 2nd ed., with a new introduction by P.N. Anderson. Baker Academic, 1999. ISBN: 9780801045813, Pub. Price $23.15 [416 pp.].
Conzelmann, H. The Theology of St Luke. SCM, 1960. ISBN: 9780800616502, Pub. Price: Out of Print [255 pp.].
Green, J.B., ed. Methods for Luke. Methods in Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780521717816, Pub. Price $28.99 [168 pp.].
E. Nestle and K. Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece. 28th ed. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012. ISBN: 9783438051400, Pub. Price $40.99.
Rowe, C.K. World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Greco-Roman Age. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199767618, Pub. Price $23.28 [312 pp.].
The SBL Handbook of Style for Biblical Studies and Related Disciplines, 2nd ed. (Atlanta: SBL Press, 1999). ISBN: 1589839641, Pub. Price $39.95 [368 pp.].
Turner, M. Power from on High: The Spirit in Israel’s Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts. JPTSup 9. Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. ISBN: 9781850757566, Pub. Price: Out of Print [512 pp.].
D’Angelo, M.R. “Women in Luke-Acts: A Redactional View,” JBL 109, no. 3 (1990): 441-61.
Hays, R.B. Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014), 55-74.
Karris, R.J. “Women and Discipleship in Luke,” CBQ 56, no. 1 (1994): 1-20.
Phillips, T.E. “Reading Recent Readings of Issues of Wealth and Poverty in Luke and Acts,” CBR 1, no. 2 (2003): 231-69.
Reardon, T.W. “Recent Trajectories and Themes in Lukan Soteriology,” CBR 12, no. 1 (2012): 77-95.
Schubert, P. “The Structure and Significance of Luke 24,” in Neutestamentliche Studien für Rudolf Bultmann zu seinem Siebzigsten Geburtstag am 20 August 1954, ed. Walther Eltester (Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, 1954), 165-86.
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:
Required reading [187 hours].
Translations and translation consultant (10%) [28 hours].
Exegetical assignments (5) (20%) [20 hours].
Discussion assignments (4) (10%) [4 hours].
Seminar presentation (15%) [5 hours].
Research paper (35%) [112 hours].
Critical response (10%) [5 hours].
PREREQUISITES: Enrollment as a ThM or PhD student in the School of Theology.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Fulfills an area requirement for students with a New Testament major; fulfills a secondary requirement for students with a New Testament minor; serves as an elective for all others.
FINAL EXAMINATION: None.