Abraham, Ancestry, and Ethnicity in Luke’s Gospel

From These Stones

Andrew Benko (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
9781978714465 (ISBN)

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Abraham, Ancestry, and Ethnicity in Luke’s Gospel: From These Stones explores how Luke employs ancestry—especially descent from Abraham—to recategorize believers and nonbelievers. Capitalizing on the surprising slipperiness of race antiquity, Luke offers a new layer of ethnic identity to gentile believers, as Abraham’s extended family.

What happens to the racial identity of those who follow Jesus? Abraham, Ancestry, and Ethnicity in Luke’s Gospel: From These Stones explores how Luke employs the concept of ancestry—especially descent from Abraham—to recategorize believers and nonbelievers. Luke’s use of the patriarch is informed by his function in Second Temple literature, as the ancestor of the Israel, but also the father of several other races, and a point of surprising contact between Jews and gentiles. In his gospel, Luke offers a new layer of ethnic identity to gentile believers, as adjunct members of Abraham’s family tree.

Andrew Benko is Academic Dean of the Iona School for Ministry and serves as a priest in the Diocese of Texas (Episcopal).

Introduction: From These Stones
Chapter 1: Ethnos and Racial Fluidity in Antiquity
Chapter 2: “The Rock from Which You Were Hewn”: Abraham in Judean Racial Reasoning
Chapter 3: “Our Ancestor Abraham”: Abraham in the Infancy Narratives
Chapter 4: “We have a father—Abraham”: Abraham as Ancestor and Ethnic Founder in Luke
Chapter 5: Whose Ancestors? Genealogical Reconfiguration in Luke-Acts
Conclusion: Carving a New People from an Old Block
Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-13	9781978714465 / 9781978714465
Zustand	Neuware