Luke
in Abingdon New Testament Commentaries
Pages
378 pages
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Published
10/1/1996
ISBN-13
9780687061327
In this volume, Robert C. Tannehill focuses on the significance of the Gospel of Luke in its final form for its original audience. Drawing on his own extensive previous work on Luke as a literary narrative as well as on recent studies of the ancient Mediterranean social world, Tannehill suggests that modern readers will find that certain features of Luke’s Gospel only take on significance—or deeper significance—when matched with an appropriate historical and cultural context in the first century.
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Reviews
DavidH
August 12, 2026
August 12, 2026
Robert Tannehill’s ANTC commentary is one of the most consistently illuminating literary readings of Luke. Drawing on his major work on the narrative unity of Luke–Acts, Tannehill follows characters, themes, narrative patterns and unresolved tensions across both volumes while also making particularly effective use of research into the ancient Mediterranean social world. His treatments of honour and shame, reciprocity, table fellowship, wealth, women and excluded people frequently give familiar passages a genuinely fresh dimension without reducing them to modern social categories. He is less exhaustive than Nolland, Marshall or Bock on grammatical and textual questions, but considerably more likely than many technical commentaries to reveal why a particular scene functions where Luke has placed it. As a second commentary alongside a major technical work, Tannehill is extraordinarily rewarding.
