Table of contents Introduction: Enigma in Two volumes  1 The ‘Gospel Acts’ of Luke: Hellenistic History as ‘Biblical’ Theology  1 The Luke-Acts Conundrum  1 Events, Fiction, and the Hermeneutics of Luke’s Narrative Persuasion  3 Biblical Texts and Intertexts as Narrative ‘Arranging’ and Intratextual ‘Sequencing’ for Luke the Hellenistic Historian and ‘Biblical’ Theologian  7 Part I: Luke’s ‘Gospel Acts’ and the Genre of the Gospels  11 Chapter One: How Luke Writes  13 Chapter Two: Re-Reading Talbert’s Luke: The Bios of “Balance” or the “Bias” of History?  39 [Short Excursus: Richard Burridge’s What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, Cambridge University Press, 1992]  64 Part II: Luke’s Prologues and Hellenistic Narrative Hermeneutics  67 Chapter Three: The Author ‘Luke’: “As One Who Has a Thoroughly Informed Familiarity with All the Events from the Top” (παρηκολουθηκότι ἄνωθεν πᾶσιν ἀκριβῶς, Luke 1:3a)  68 Chapter Four: The Meaning of ΚΑΘΕΞΗΣ in Luke’s Two-Volume Narrative  108 Part III: Luke among Hellenistic Historians  125 Chapter Five: ‘Listening Posts’ Along the Way: ‘Synchronisms’ as Metaleptic Prompts to the ‘Continuity of the Narrative’ in Polybius’s Histories and in Luke’s ‘Gospel Acts’  127 Chapter Six: ‘Managing’ the Audience: Diodorus Siculus and Luke the Evangelist on Designing Authorial Intent  154 Chapter Seven: A New Reading οf Luke’s ‘Gospel Acts’: Acts as the ‘Metaleptic’ Collapse of Luke and Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Narrative ‘Arrangement’ (οἰκονομíα) as the Hermeneutical Keys to Luke’s Re-Visioning of the “Many”  172 Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/12/16 10:32 PM