the role of the lukan parables in terms of the purpose of luke's gospel

and disputable. 43 Secondly, they are inclined to fall into the danger of pure subjectivism
because they restrict themselves to thematic agreements. Marshall points out that such
attempts have the danger of forcing the text, and Fitzymyer also shows a rather sceptical
attitude towards the chiastic structure expressed by Talbert. 44
With respect to a chiastic
structure, the main question is, “could it possibly be understandable for the reader?” in a
situation when the Gospel is simply read aloud in a temporal succession from the outset to the
end. Nevertheless, the chiastic structures give us in reality considerable insight into
understanding the Journey. If we direct attention to these frames that Luke gives, we can
obviously figure out the theological significance of the Journey better.
2-4. Old Testament Models
Driven by the OT, scholars strive to settle the tension between the form and content in the
travel narrative in many ways based on the OT: Moses, Elijah, Davidic King, Suffering
Servant, exodus, and the like. What is quite obvious to the scholars who investigate the use of
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the OT in Luke-Acts is that the NT writer has consciously used the OT, as well as had been
influenced unconsciously by the OT. In line with C.F. Evans’s ‘Christian Deuteronomy’ that
43. See the chiastic structures of Gould, Bailey, Talbert, Blomberg, Farrel, and Schweizer.
44. See Marshall, Luke, 402; Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke, 96-97.
45. See D.L. Bock, Proclamation from Prophecy and Pattern, Lucan Old Testament Christology (JSNTSup 12;
Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987), 49-51; idem, “The Use of the Old Testament in Luke-Acts:
Christology and Mission,” in ed., D.J. Lull, SBL 1990 Seminar Papers (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990), 494-511;
J.T. Sanders, “The Prophetic Use of the Scriptures in Luke-Act,” in ed., C.A. Evans and W.F. Stinespring, Early
Jewish and Christian Exegesis: Studies in Memory of William Hugh Brownlee (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987),
191-98; Thomas L. Brodie, “Luke-Acts as an Imitation and Emulation of the Elijah-Elisha Narrative,” in ed.,
Earl Richard, New Views on Luke and Acts (Collegeville: MN: Liturgical Press, 1990), 78-85; F. Bovon, “The
Role of the Scriptures in the Composition of the Gospel Accounts: The Temptations of Jesus (Lk4:1-13 par.) and
the Multiplication of the Loaves (Lk 9:10-17 par.),” in ed., G. O’Collins and G. Marconi, Luke and Acts (New
York: Paulist Press, 1991), 26-31; J.A. Fitzmyer, “The Use of the Old Testament in Luke-Acts,” in ed., E.H.
Lovering, SBL 1992 Seminar Papers (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992), 524-38; C.A. Kimball, Jesus’ Exposition
of the Old Testament in Luke’s Gospel (JSNTSup 94; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), 13-44, 47;
Brigid, C. Frein, “Narrative Predictions, Old Testament Prophecies and Luke’s Sense of Fulfillment,” NTS 40
(1994), 22-37 J.B. Green, “The Problem of a Beginning: Israel’s Scriptures in Luke 1-2,” BBR 4 (1994), 61-86;
R.L. Brawley, Text to Text Pours Forth Speech: Voices of Scripture in Luke-Acts (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 1995), 41-80; Rebecca I. Denova, The Things Accomplished among Us: Prophetic Tradition in
the Structural Pattern of Luke-Acts (JSNTSup, 141; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), 18-28, 112-116,
210; D.W. Pao, Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 2000), 4-10, 17; K.D. Litwak,
Echoes of Scripture in Luke-Acts: Telling the History of God’s People Intertextually (London: T & T Clark
International, 2005), 1-34; Gail.R. O’Day, “The Citation of Scripture as a Key to Characterization in Acts,” in
ed., P. Gray and Gail R. O'Day, Scripture and Traditions: Essays on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of
Carl R. Holladay (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 207-221.
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