Review in: Interpretation
2003 57: 322
Review door: Blake
R. GrangaardGevonden op: http://int.sagepub.com/content/57/3/322.2.full.pdf+html
Luke
1: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 1:1-9:50
by François Bovon Translated by Christine M. Thomas. Edited by Helmut Koester. Hermeneia. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2002.
480 pp. $59.00 (cloth). ISBN 08006-6044-7.
THIS IS A TRANSLATION
of the first volume of Bovon's three-volume commentary on Luke, which was first
published in the Evangelischkatholischer Kommentar series. In this volume,
Bovon comments on the Lukan Gospel from the birth narratives through the
Galilean ministry of Jesus. He addresses historical, literary, and theological
issues through careful exegesis of the text and with attention to the history
of interpretation. The wide range of contemporary and historical commentators
with whom Bovon engages is evidenced by an exhaustive bibliography as well as
the series's typically detailed footnotes. Bovon regards Luke as "a
witness to a particular
form of Pauline thought in the second or third generation" (p. 11). Luke
"may have been a Macedonian" who wrote "between 80 and 90
C.E." and dedicated his work to Theophilus, a historical person (pp. 8-9).
Luke writes "with the care of a historian, the apologetic enthusiasm of a
convert, and the earnest appeal of a missionary" to an audience that
includes Gentiles, Hellenistic Jews, and "Christians unsettled by
rumors" (p. 9). Luke is above all a "theologian of God's word,"
and though interested in history, he develops his theology in and around
personal relationships to Christ, the Word, and the Church (p. xiii).
Pastors and
scholars alike will find Bovon's commentary a delight to read and an important
resource of the highest academic quality. It is also the work of a believer
engaged with scripture. The translator is to be credited for making this a
readable commentary.
Bovon comments
about Luke 2:1-21, "Luke knows how to make this encounter [between God and
humanity] vivid" (p. 93). Bovon does the same.
BLAKE R.
GRANGAARD
HEIDELBERG COLLEGE
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