By Barbara Shellard
This radical new interpretation finds many connections among Luke and Johannine traditions. Comparision of pericopae shared by means of Luke and John means that the standard assumptions of Lukan precedence might be unsuitable; in its place his could be chronologically the fourth gospel. Luke neverthless treats his assets in numerous methods, his reaction being either severe and inventive. He goals to provide protection to Christians by way of together with up to attainable and reconciling conflicting traditions, whereas firmly with the exception of heretical misinterpretation.
Shellard additionally incorporates a attention of Luke's use of attainable assets, either canonical and extra-canonical, and areas Luke-Acts in its literary context, noting between different issues the presentation of Rome as a facilitatator of evangelization and a promoter of co-existence.
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Normative Judaism' is a later conception; in the first century it was thoroughly diverse, and may have included views as hostile to Jewish exclusivity as Luke's. 42. Marilyn Salmon, 'Insider or Outsider? Luke's Relationship with Judaism', in Joseph B. ), Luke-Acts and the Jewish People (Minneapolis: AugsburgFortress, 1988), pp. 76-82. 43. We notice that only Jews such as Jesus, Peter, Stephen and Paul berate the Jews 46 New Light on Luke raises the further question whether anyone as steeped in the Old Testament as Luke clearly was might not have thought of himself as a Jew, even if he was in actuality a proselyte or God-fearing Gentile.
W. Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971), pp. 95-129. 100. Cf. Jeffers, Conflict, p. 95. It may nevertheless be significant that Ignatius, Rom. 1 says that Rome 'taught others'. 101. Thus, although John's Gospel was popular in Asia Minor in the second century, it was regarded with suspicion by Rome for some time. 102. See F. J. Foakes Jackson and K. Lake, The Beginnings of Christianity (London: Macmillan, 1922), II, pp. , and also Kirsopp Lake, T h e Apostles' Creed', HTR 17 (1924), pp.
The verb KaTTix^co may imply that Theophilus, if he existed at all, had received instruction in the Christian faith. 70. We may compare 1 Peter, where there is a similar use of Christ as an example of innocent suffering which is intended to serve as a model for believers. 71. 20-27, where the consequence of the attempt to placate them is the capture of Paul. 52 New Light on Luke to be the consequence of their beliefs for other Christians to which Luke objects, not the beliefs themselves. Likewise, Paul's speech at Miletus is less concerned with the difficulties Christians were experiencing from 'outsiders', be they Jew or Roman, than with pressure from those inside72 the community who weaken it by their heretical ideas73 and tear it apart.