C. Kavin Rowe's keenest essays on Luke, Acts, and Paul, collected into one volume How should scholars undertake New Testament interpretation? C. Kavin Rowe unfolds a careful, multidisciplinary approach across fifteen of his most incisive articles and chapters. Focusing on Luke, Acts, and Paul's letters, this authoritative collection exemplifies how to enrich exegesis through historical inquiry, philosophical reasoning, and theological reflection. Topics include: - The historical context of the Roman imperial cult - Ecclesial theology in Luke and Acts - The relationship between Luke and Acts - Paul and material culture Seeking the truth of Scripture requires more than a close reading of the text. Rowe's work on Luke, Acts, and Paul demonstrates how fruitful biblical interpretation can be when interpreters cross disciplinary boundaries. This volume is an indispensable addition to the libraries of scholars, students, and serious readers of Scripture alike.
C. Kavin Rowe is the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament and vice dean for faculty at Duke Divinity School. His previous books include Early Narrative Christology; World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age; Leading Christian Communities; and Method, Context, and Meaning in New Testament Studies.
"Reading these essays has provided me with the opportunity to reflect on how much of my own scholarship has been worked out and articulated in conversation with Kavin Rowe. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that Rowe's work is marked by strong exegetical readings of texts, careful historical analysis, and theological and methodological sophistication. There are places where I have ongoing questions and see matters differently than Rowe. But there are not as many scholars who do indeed attempt to think so holistically and this gives his work a certain excitement and energy that makes him always worth reading and engaging." --Joshua W. Jipp, Scottish Journal of Theology "Rowe's work on Luke, Acts, and Paul demonstrates how fruitful biblical interpretation can be when interpreters cross disciplinary boundaries." --Interpretation "Kavin Rowe is a premier scholar of this generation who is able to integrate several horizons of exegesis and theology into his investigation of the New Testament. This erudite collection showcases some of his standout essays on Luke, Acts, and Paul, many of which are classic studies destined to endure for decades. Cutting-edge works on core parts of the New Testament." --Michael F. Bird, deputy principal, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia "These essays display the rare qualities we have come to associate with Kavin Rowe: wide learning, philosophical depth, and theologically serious challenges to the sometimes unexamined consensuses that prevail in New Testament scholarship. Take, read, and be provoked!" --David Lincicum, associate professor of New Testament and early Christian studies, University of Notre Dame "The sheer range of interests and their interactions evinced by Rowe's essays on Luke, Acts, and Paul is breathtaking. This collection illustrates his understanding of the Christian mind needed to read the church's scripture rigorously, constructively, and honestly. His intellectual adventures always seem to be in hot pursuit of the truth, and each bears witness to the courage required to take one's stand once there." --Robert W. Wall, Paul T. Walls Professor Emeritus of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies, Seattle Pacific University and Seminary
