The afterlife imagery in Luke's story of the rich man and Lazarus / by Outi Lehtipuu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehtipuu, Outi.

Series:

Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 123.

Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; v. 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rich man and Lazarus (Parable)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Rich man and Lazarus (Parable).

Future life--Biblical teaching.

Future life.

Bible. N.T. Luke XVI, 19-31--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the keen scholarly interest in the Gospel parables, the afterlife scenery in the story of the rich man and Lazarus has often been overlooked. Using insights from the orality studies and intertextuality, the author places the Lukan description of the fate of the dead into the larger Hellenistic matrix, provided by a large number of Greco-Roman and Jewish sources, both literary and epigraphic. Moreover, she challenges several conventional stances in Lukan studies, such as tracing the original of the story to Egypt, or maintaining that eschatology is a key for understanding Luke’s work and the purpose for writing it, or harmonizing Luke’s eschatological thinking by positing an intermediate state between death and general resurrection. Thus, the book offers fresh insights both to the way the fate of the dead was understood in the ancient world and to the concept of Lukan eschatology.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

Problem

Previous research and its evaluation

Purpose of this study

Part II: Dividing the dead: the Hellenistic matrix

Preliminary remarks: from fixed parallels to intertextuality

Differentiated fates in Greco-Roman sources

Differentiated fates: only an elite view?

Differentiated fates in Jewish sources

Summary of part two

Part III: Luke's description of the hereafter in context

Preliminary remarks: the function of the afterlife scene

Structural themes of the story

Details of the description

Summary of part three

Part IV: Afterlife imagery in Luke-Acts

Preliminary remarks: a consistent eschatological scheme?

Rich man and Lazarus and Luke's eschatology

Fate of the individual after death

Summary of part four

Conclusions.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Helsinki, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-329) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-40019-X

9786611400194

90-474-1058-0

OCLC:

290556675

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004153011.i-361 DOI