The Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts: A Reassessment of the Evidence

HALF-TITLE......Page 3
SERIES-TITLE......Page 4
TITLE......Page 7
COPYRIGHT......Page 8
CONTENTS......Page 9
FIGURES......Page 13
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 15
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 16
1 BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY......Page 19
State of the question......Page 21
External evidence for single authorship......Page 26
Internal evidence for single authorship......Page 28
Stylistic evidence......Page 29
Theological-thematic evidence......Page 39
Challenges to the single authorship hypothesis......Page 42
Challenge by Albert C. Clark (1933)......Page 44
Category 1: Particle and preposition use…......Page 45
Category 2: Lexical differences between Acts and the four gospels......Page 47
Category 3: The…......Page 48
Category 4: Singular features of Acts......Page 49
Assessment of Clark’s challenge and Knox’s rebuttal......Page 50
Rebuttal by B. E. Beck (1977)......Page 51
Why re-examine the single authorship hypothesis?......Page 53
Stage One: Select data appropriate for analysis of authorial style......Page 54
Stage Two: Recover prose compositional conventions from antiquity......Page 55
Stylometry defined......Page 56
Precedents for the authorship analysis methodology......Page 57
Concluding considerations......Page 59
2 AUTHORIAL DATA: SEAMS AND SUMMARIES......Page 61
Historical roots of \"seam\" and \"summary\" in Markan studies......Page 62
Relevance to Luke and Acts research and resultant problems......Page 66
Criterion of majority consensus......Page 69
Seam......Page 71
Collected set of seams and summaries in Luke......Page 72
Closing of sections; conclusions......Page 73
Summaries of Jesus’ ministry and influence......Page 74
Collected set of seams and summaries in Acts......Page 92
Summaries that demonstrate the clearest parallelism......Page 97
Summaries that frame narrative panels......Page 98
Summaries that display complicated parallelism......Page 99
Summaries from causal participial constructions......Page 100
Toward an authorship analysis......Page 106
3 AUTHORIAL CRITERIA: GREEK PROSE COMPOSITIONAL CONVENTIONS......Page 108
Prose composition in antiquity......Page 112
Aristotle......Page 114
Pseudo-Demetrius......Page 115
Dionysius of Halicarnassus......Page 116
Pseudo-Longinus......Page 120
Euphonic elements in prose composition......Page 121
Hiatus......Page 122
Hiatus in Luke and Acts......Page 125
Dissonance......Page 127
Rhythmic elements in prose composition......Page 128
Rhythm patterns in Luke and Acts......Page 142
Structural elements in prose composition......Page 144
Structural elements in Luke and Acts......Page 152
4 AUTHORIAL UNITY: ANALYSIS RESULTS AND PROBABILITIES......Page 155
Raw data derived from the seams and summaries in Luke and Acts......Page 156
Pre-analysis assumptions......Page 157
Explaining differences: three possibilities......Page 158
Explanation 1: Same author-editor but different genres or styles......Page 159
Different genres......Page 160
Differences in style but not necessarily in genre......Page 163
Explanation 2: Same author-editor but different dates of composition......Page 165
Euphony analysis......Page 167
Hiatus......Page 168
The chi-square contingency table test explained......Page 171
Ha: There is a difference in the hiatus patterns of Luke and Acts beyond normal, random variability.......Page 172
Details of the chi-square contingency table test......Page 173
Expected count......Page 175
Chi-square contribution......Page 176
Dissonance......Page 178
Chi-square statistic for dissonance......Page 182
Prose rhythm analysis......Page 183
Prose rhythm problematics......Page 185
Sequences of long syllables......Page 188
“Non-long” sequences......Page 190
Chi-square statistic for sequences of long syllables......Page 191
Sentence structure analysis......Page 193
Sentence structure problematics......Page 194
Final syntactic element......Page 197
Chi-square statistic for ending syntactic element......Page 199
Clause and sentence segues......Page 201
Chi-square statistic for clause and sentence segues......Page 203
Interpreting the differences: Is there a \"big picture\"?......Page 204
Euphony and prose rhythm......Page 205
Ending syntactic element, and clause and sentence segues......Page 206
Final considerations......Page 208
Implications of different authorship......Page 209
The dating of Acts......Page 210
“Luke-Acts,” an afterthought?......Page 211
Resolution of conundra......Page 212
Future directions......Page 213
Concluding reflection......Page 214
Luke seams and summaries......Page 215
Acts seams and summaries......Page 222
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 229
INDEX OF BIBLICAL AND OTHER ANCIENT SOURCES......Page 242
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS......Page 252