The Gospel According to Luke X-XXIV

844 Pages·1985·16.278 MB·English

by  Joseph A. Fitzmyer

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THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO
LUKEX-XXIV
JOSEPH A.
FITZMYER
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING 'ID LUKE X-XXIV
is Volume 28A in the Anchor Bible
series of new, book-by-book transla
tions of the Old and New Testaments
and Apocrypha. This is the conclusion
of Joseph A. Fitzmyer's two-volume
study of Luke.
Included here is Fitzmyer's work on
chapter 10, in which Jesus continues his
journey to Jerusalem, through chapter
24, his Resurrection and appearances.
The translation relies on the commen
tator's familiarity with the Greek and
Semitic languages, while the exegesis
commands a thorough knowledge of
the vast cultural, technical, and lin
guistic information he has gathered
from an international selection of
Lucan literature. Each of the fifteen
chapters here is studied and discussed
in respect to the Gospel as a whole,
Acts, and the Old Testament. The two
indices refer to both volumes on Luke.
In "joining the spirit to the letter"
and scholarship to faith, Joseph A. Fitz-
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myer has produced a worthy successor
to his The Gospel According to Luke I -
IX, which Theowgical Studies described
as "extraordinarily learned and rich ... a
benchmark in Lucan studies."
Joseph A. Fitzmyer is a Jesuit priest
and professor at the Catholic U niver
sity of America. A past president of
the Society of Biblical Literature and
the Catholic Biblical Association, Fa
ther Fitzmyer has also published
three bool<s of essays on the New Tes
tament and its relation to the Dead Sea
Scrolls, as well as four handbooks on
the study of Aramaic texts and Qumran.
He is one of the editors of The Jerome
Bible Commentary.
GENERAL EDllDRS OF THE ANCHOR BIBLE
W. F. Albright, Professor Emeritus, Orien
tal Seminary of Johns Hopkins University;
internationally regarded as the dean of bibli
cal studies [d. 1971).
David Noel Freedman, Professor in the De
partment of Near Eastern Studies and Direc
tor of the Program on Studies in Religion,
University of Michigan.
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THE COMMENTARIES THE CONTRIBUTORS
The Old Testament Francis I. Andersen, Professor, Studies Abraham]. Malherbe, Professor of New
I. GENESIS in Religion, University of Queensland, Testament Criticism and Interpretation,
2. EXODUS 0 Australia. 24, 24A, 25, 25A Yale Divinity School. 32B
3. LEVITICUS 0
4. NUMBERS 0 Markus Barth, Professor of New Testa C.S. Mann, Special Assistant, Human
5. DEUTERONOMY 0 ment, University of Basel, Switzerland. ities Projects, Coppin State College, Bal
6. JOSHUA 34, 34A, 34B timore. 26, 27
6A. JUDGES
7. RUTH Robert G. Boling, Professor of Old Tes ]. Louis Martyn, Professor of Biblical
7A. LAMENTATIONS tament, McCormick Theological Semi Theology, Union Theological Seminary,
7B. ESTHER nary, Chicago. 6, 6A. and Adjunct Professor of Religion, Co
7C. SONG OF SONGS lumbia University, New York City. 33A
8. I SAMUEL john Bright, Profess~r Emeritus, Union
9. II SAMUEL Theological Seminary, Richmond. 21 CarolL. Meyers, Associate Professor, De
10. I KINGS 0 partment of Religion, Duke University,
11. II KINGS+ Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Professor of Durham. 25B
12. I CHRONICLES Biblical Studies, Union Theological
13. II CHRONICLES Seminary, New York City. 29, 29A, 30 Eric M. Meyers, Associate Professor, De
14. EZRA, NEHEMIAH partment of Religion, Duke University.
15. JOB George Wesley Buchanan, Professor of 25B
16. PSALMS I 1-50 New Testament, Wesley Theological
17. PSALMS 1151-100 Seminary, Washington, D.G. 36 Jacob Milgrom, Professor of Hebrew and
17A. PSALMS III 101-150 Bible, University of California, Berke
18. PROVERBS, Edward F. Campbell, Jr. Professor of ley. 3
ECCLESIASTES Old Testament, McCormick Theological
19. FIRST ISAIAH 0 Seminary, Chicago. 7 Carey A. Moore, Chairman, Department
20. SECOND ISAIAH of Religion, Gettysburg College. 78, 40,
21. JEREMIAH Mordechai Cogan, Chairman, Depart 40A, 44
22. EZEKIEL 1-20 ment of Bible and Ancient Near East,
22A. EZEKIEL 21-48 0 Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Johannes Munck, Professor of New Te~
2234.. THHOES EBAO OK OF DANIEL Israel. 10, 11 lDaemnemnat rkE. x3e1g e[ds.i s1, 96A5]a rhus Universitro
24A. AMOS, MICAH 0 Mitchell Dahood, SJ., Professor ofUgari
25. JOEL, OBADIAH, Jacob M. Myers, Professor Emeritus,
tic Language and Literature, The Pontifi
JONAH 0 Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettys
25A NAHUM, HABAKKUK, cal Biblical Institute, Rome. 16, 17, 17A burg. 12, 13, 14, 42
ZEPHANIAH 0 [d. 1982]
25B. HAGGAI, ZECHA Kevin G. O'Connell SJ., Chairman,
RIAH 1-8 + Alexander A. Di Lella, O.F.M ., Professor Department of Religious Studies, John
25C. ZECHARIAH 9-14, of Old Testament, Catholic University of Carroll University, Cleveland. 2
MALACHIO America, Washington, D.C. 23, 39
William F. Orr, Emeritus Professor of
The New Testament Joseph A. Fitzmyer, SJ., Professor of New New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological
Testament, Catholic University of Seminary. 32
26. MATTHEW America. 28, 28A
27. MARK + Marvin H. Pope, Professor of Northwest
28. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING ]. Massyngberde Ford, Professor of New Semitic Languages, Yale University. 7C,
TO LUKE I-IX Testament Studies, University of Notre 15
28A. THE GOSPEL ACCORD Dame. 38
ING TO LUKE X-XXIV Jerome D. Quinn, Professor of Sacred
29. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING Victor P. Furnish. Professor of New Tes Scripture, St. Paul Seminary, Minnesota.
TO JOHN I-XII tament, Perkins School of Theology, 35
29A. THE GOSPEL Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
ACCORDING TO JOHN 32A Bo Ivar Reicke, Professor of New Testa
XIII-XX! ment, University of Basel, Switzerland.
30. THE EPISTLES OF JOHN Johnathan A . Goldstein, Professor of 37
31. THE ACTS OF THE History and Classics. University of Iowa.
32. AI CPOOSRTINLETSH IANS 4I, 41A jmohennt ,H eLuumthaenrna,n PTrohfeeoslsoogr icoafl NSeewm Tineasrtya ,
32A. II CORINTHIANS Moshe Greenberg, Professor of Biblical Philadelphia. 33B
32B. I & II THESSALONIANS 0 Studies, Hebrew University, Israel. 22,
33. ROMANS 0 R.B.Y. Scott, Professor Emeritus, De
33A. GALATIANS 0 22A partment of Religion, Princeton Univer
33B. PHILIPPIANS 0 Louis F. Hartman, C.SS.R ., Professor sity. 18
34. EPHESIANS 1-3
of Semitic Languages, Catholic Univer
3344A8.. CEOPHLOESSISAIANNS S4, -6 sity of America. 23 [d. 1970] PLaatnrgicuka gWe.s , SCkaethhaonl,i c PUronfievsesrosri tyo fo Sf eAmmietirc
PHILEMON 0 Delbert R. Hillers, W.W. Spence Profes ica. 39 l d. 1980]
35. I & II TIMOTHY, TITUS 0 sor of Semitic Languages, Department
3367.. TT]AOHM ETE HESEP, IPHSETETLBEERRSE, WOAFNS D oUfn Niveearrs itEya, sBtearlnti mStourdei.e 7sA, Johns Hopkins mE.eAn. t Sopfe Oiserrie, nCtahl aSirtmudaine so, fU thneiv eDrseiptya rot f
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. l [d. 1965]
JUDE Leander E. Keck, Dean, Yale Divinity
38. REVELATION School, New Haven. 33 H ayim Tadmor, Professor of Assyriology,
Hebrew University. 10, 11
Apocrypha Baruch A. Levine, Professor of Hebrew,
39. WISDOM OF BEN SIRA 0 New York University. 4 James Arthur Walther, Emeritus Profes
40. JUDITH sor of New Testament, Pittsburgh Theo
40A. TOBIT 0 P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., Professor of Re logical Seminary. 32
41. I MACCABEES ligious Studies, University oT Virginia.
41A. II MACCABEES 8, 9 David Winston, Professor of Hellenistic
42. I & II ESDRAS and Judaic Studies, Graduate Theological
43. THE WISDOM OF john L. McKenzie, Professor Emeritus of Union, Berkeley. 43
SOLOMON Old Testament Theology, De Paul Uni
44. DANIEL, ESTHER, AND versity, Chicago. 20 G. Ernest Wright, Professor of Divinity
JEREMIAH: THE Curator of Semitic Museum, Harvard
ADDITIONS a- University, Cambridge. 6 [d. 1974]
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THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO LUKE X-XXIV
VOLUME 28A

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THE ANCHOR BIBLE
The Gospel According to
LUKE
(X-XXIV)
Introduction, Translation, and Notes
by
JOSEPH A. FITZMYER, S.J.
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The Gospel according to Luke.
(The Anchor Bible; v. 28-28A)
Includes bibliographies and index.
I. Bible. N.T. Luke----Commentaries. I. Fitzmyer,
Joseph A. II. Title. III. Series: Bible. English.
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