Fields, Villages, Countryside, and Beyond: Towards a Rural Inventory of the Gospel of Luke

This study proposes rigor in approaching the question of how the writer of Lukes Gospel handled the rural material. The author constructs an inventory of literary artifacts of rural contact found within the Gospel. Data from this inventory are then used to explore three issues: 1) the distribution o...

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Main Author:	Purscell, Kenneth James
Other Authors:	David L. Balch
Format:	Others
Language:	en
Published:	Texas Christian University 2006
Subjects:	Brite Divinity School
Online Access:	http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-07062006-095001/

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Fields, Villages, Countryside, and Beyond: Towards a Rural Inventory of the Gospel of Luke

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