Introduction: An Orderly Account of Luke's View of the Law?


1 Why is Luke-Acts so 'Jewish'?: The Origins of the Argument for 'Inconsistency'


1.1 F.C. Baur and the Tübingen School


1.2 Revisions of the Tübingen Thesis


1.3 The Dominance of Overbeck's Appraisal: Luke is Inconsistent


2 New Proposals and the Retrenchment of Overbeck's Hypothesis


2.1 Conzelman, Jervell, and Wilson


2.2 Recent Studies of the Law in Luke and the Ongoing Dominance of the Overbeck-Wilson Hypothesis


2.3 The Sea Change


2.4 The Present Study


3 Method and Plan of Study


3.1 A Hermeneutic of Charity


3.2 Literary and Historical Method


3.3 Plan of Study


Part One: How Does Luke Read the Law?


Chapter One: Law as Prophecy and Command


1 Introduction


2 Are the 'Predictive' and 'Prescriptive' Functions of the Law in Tension?


3 Narrative Progression and the Cessation of the Law's Regulative Function in Salvation History


4 Acts 15 and the Enduring Regulative Function of the Law


5 The Enduring Function of the Whole Law in Luke 16


6 Conclusion


Chapter Two: Luke's Prophetic Hermeneutic


1 Introduction


2 Luke as Prioritizing 'Moral' over 'Ritual' Purity


3 Luke 10.25-37: Love God and Do Mercy


4 Luke 11.37-52: Love God and Do Justice


5 Acts 10: Fear God and Do Righteousness


6 Defining Law-Observance in Second Temple Jewish Texts


7 Conclusion


Part Two: The Law within Luke's Narrative Rhetoric


Chapter Three: Jesus's Law-Observance and his Lawbreaking Opponents


1 Introduction


2 Jesus's Fidelity to the Law


3 Jesus as a Teacher of Torah


4 Conclusion: Clarifying Luke's Rhetoric


Chapter Four: Luke's Law-Abiding Ekklesia and Their Lawbreaking Opponents


1 Introduction


2 Peter and the Early Movement


3 Addressing Objections: Fellowship with Gentiles


4 Paul's Faithfulness to the Law


5 Conclusion


Conclusion


1 Luke's View of the Law is Consistent


2 The Socio-Rhetorical Setting of Luke's Legal Discourse


3 Where Did We Go Wrong?


4 Where Do We Go From Here?