Luke the Historian of Israel's Legacy, Theologian of Israel's 'Christ'

Do Luke and Acts form a miniature Christian Bible?Among New Testament authors, Luke alone looks globally over written texts that are being read as authoritative scripture and pronounces them as pointing together severally, and as a whole, to the Messiah Jesus who must suffer. Read together these Jewish Scriptures are becoming the Christian ?Bible. Luke the Historian andTheologian argues that both Hellenistic rhetorical historiography and Israel s scriptural heritage distinguish the ever intriguing landscape that we call Luke-Acts and, through a thematic movement of its own, brings both dimensions into bold, coherent relief.