The afterlife imagery in Luke's story of the rich man and Lazarus /
Despite the keen scholarly interest in the Gospel parables, the afterlife scenery in the story of the rich man and Lazarus has often been overlooked. Using insights from the orality studies and intertextuality, the author places the Lukan description of the fate of the dead into the larger Hellenist...
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Language: English
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Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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Supplements to Novum Testamentum,
v. 123
Novum Testamentum, Supplements
123.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264557.
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Call Number: BT378.D5 L44 2007
- Preliminary Material
- Chapter 1: The Problem
- Chapter 2: Previous Research and Its Evaluation
- Chapter 3: The Purpose of This Study
- Chapter 4: Preliminary Remarks: From Fixed Parallels to Intertextuality
- Chapter 5: Differentiated Fates in Greco-Roman Sources
- Chapter 6: Differentiated Fates: Only an Elite View?
- Chapter 7: Differentiated Fates in Jewish Sources
- Chapter 8: Summary of Part Two
- Chapter 9: Preliminary Remarks: The Function of the Afterlife Scene
- Chapter 10: The Structural Themes of the Story
- Chapter 11: Details of the Description
- Chapter 12: Summary of Part Three
- Chapter 13: Preliminary Remarks: A Consistent Eschatological Scheme?
- Chapter 14: The Rich Man and Lazarus and Luke's Eschatology
- Chapter 15: The Fate of the Individual after Death
- Chapter 16: Summary of Part Four
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index.