Themes and Texts in Luke-Acts

Essays in honour of Bart J. Koet

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Twenty-three leading scholars interact in this volume with Luke-Acts. They study a variety of themes and pericopes. From Luke’s view of money and property, the relationship of tamid and eucharist, to the reception of Luke-Acts in Cyprian’s work, it brings new insights to the fore. The essays on individual passages interact with the Jewish and pagan contexts of the work and approach their topics through several different methodological approaches. Editors and authors offer this collection as a token of friendship and gratitude to Bart J. Koet, collected at the occasion of his retirement.
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Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, PhD (1995), is Professor of New Testament at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His fields of interest are apocalypticism and the Book of Revelation, the Pauline epistles, and New Testament textual criticism. He is General Editor, with David Hunter and Paul van Geest, of the Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2018-) and is currently preparing a study on the historical Jesus. Caroline H.C.M. Vander Stichele, PhD (1992), is Professor of New Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. Her research and publications focus on gender issues in early Christian literature and the impact of the Bible in Western Culture, with a focus on film. She is also editor of the online journal Die Bibel in der Kunst (BiKu)/Bible in the Arts (BiA) and project manager of the NWO funded research project, entitled Apocalypse and Climate Change: Impact of Religious Vocabularies in the Netherlands (2023-26). Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, PhD (1993), is Professor of Old Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. He has published especially on prophetic literature and communication-oriented analysis. He is the co-editor of Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation (Brill, 2021) and co-author along with Frank G. Bosman of Video games as Art (De Gruyter, 2022).
Notes on Contributors

Luke-Acts for a Friend
An Introduction
 Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Caroline Vander Stichele and Archibald van Wieringen

Part 1: Themes in Luke-Acts


The Fundamental Paradox in Luke’s Perception of Money and Property
 Paul J.J. van Geest

“The One Who Came from God”
Exploring the Identity of Jesus through Luke’s Eyes
 Gert J. Steyn

Elijah, John and Jesus in a Lukan Perspective
 Nico Riemersma

Tamid and Eucharist in Luke–Acts
 Adelbert Denaux and Inge M.J.C. Van Wiele

Breaking the Bread and Communal Meals in Luke and Acts
 Gerard A.M. Rouwhorst

The Ascension of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel and Acts
 Paul-Gerhard Klumbies

Jerome’s Letter to Algasia and the Gospel of Luke
 Pancratius C. Beentjes

So Let Us Pray: Luke-Acts in Cyprian’s De Dominica Oratione
 Edwina Murphy

Part 2: Texts from Luke


The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Sacrifice Offered by Mary and Joseph (Luke 2.22–24) Remembered in the Early Church
 Anni Maria Laato

Who Is the Δοῦλος in Luke 2.29?
Two Reading Options: Simeon and Jesus
 Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen

Does David’s Way of Acting in Nob Betray Carelessness for What Belongs to God?
1 Samuel 21–22 and the Psalms Related to Saul and to the Sabbath as the Background of Luke 6.1–5
 Willem A.M. Beuken

Theophany as an Undreamt-Of Answer to Prayer in Luke 9.28–36
A Diachronic and Synchronic Consensus
 Gearard Ó Floinn

The Influence of Lk 17.1–10 on the Gospel’s Central Section
 Ulrich Busse

Weeping over Jerusalem
Intertextuality in Luke 19.41–44
 Lukas Bormann

Dry Wood, a Fig Tree in a Vineyard
Luke 13.6–9 as a Parable to Understand Luke 23.31
 Joke H.A. Brinkhof

Talking Nonsense?
The Disciples’ Response to the Women in Luke 24.1–22 and Other Early Christian Texts
 Caroline Vander Stichele

Part 3: Texts from Acts


Acts and Hebrews: Commonalities in Scriptural Exegesis
 Susan E. Docherty

God’s Big Power
Acts 8.10 in Its Jewish Context
 Leon Mock

Luke’s Paul Gives a Speech
A Comment on Acts 17.24–25
 Joseph Verheyden

Θρησκεια in Acts 26.5 and Jewish Passages from the Late Hellenistic or Early Roman Periods
 Jan Willem van Henten

Not Once, Not Twice, but Three Times!
An Overlooked Halakhic Principle in Acts 28
 Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte

“Teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with All Boldness” (Acts 28.31)
Notes on Paul’s Successors in Second-Century Rome
 Peter Gemeinhardt

Index of References
Index of Modern Authors
Academic students of the New Testament: biblical scholars in general, New Testament scholars in particular, but also (under-)graduate students.
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