Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era
Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era
This chapter considers how a scene in the reading of Luke, and more generally the type of reading depicted in the New Testament, as being practiced by Jesus, may be understood as a model for a type of reading widespread in the Christian Era. It argues that the model, developed by the Fathers of the Church, and above all by the medieval, was carried into the present by their heirs in modern literary criticism. Luke makes the “scene of reading” the starting point of Jesus's public ministry.
Keywords: Christian Era, Jesus, Luke, New Testament, literary criticism, reading
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