"Kavin Rowe is a premier scholar of this generation who is able to integrate several horizons of exegesis and theology into his investigation of the New Testament. This erudite collection showcases some of his standout essays on Luke, Acts, and Paul, many of which are classic studies destined to endure for decades. Cutting-edge works on core parts of the New Testament."
—Michael F. Bird, deputy principal, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia

"These essays display the rare qualities we have come to associate with Kavin Rowe: wide learning, philosophical depth, and theologically serious challenges to the sometimes unexamined consensuses that prevail in New Testament scholarship. Take, read, and be provoked!"
—David Lincicum, associate professor of New Testament and early Christian studies, University of Notre Dame

"The sheer range of interests and their interactions evinced by Rowe’s essays on Luke, Acts, and Paul is breathtaking. This collection illustrates his understanding of the Christian mind needed to read the church’s scripture rigorously, constructively, and honestly. His intellectual adventures always seem to be in hot pursuit of the truth, and each bears witness to the courage required to take one’s stand once there."
—Robert W. Wall, Paul T. Walls Professor Emeritus of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies, Seattle Pacific University and Seminary
 

C. Kavin Rowe is the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament and vice dean for faculty at Duke Divinity School. His previous books include Early Narrative Christology; World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age; Leading Christian Communities; and Method, Context, and Meaning in New Testament Studies.

Table of Contents

Preface 
List of Abbreviations 
Part 1: Christology, Greco-Roman Culture, and Canonical Reception: Readings in Luke and Acts 
          Luke-Acts and the Imperial Cult: A Way through the Conundrum? 
          The God of Israel and Jesus Christ: Luke, Marcion, and the Unity of the Canon 
          Luke and the Trinity: An Essay in Ecclesial Biblical Theology 
          The Grammar of Life: The Areopagus Speech and Pagan Tradition 
          Reading World Upside Down: A Response to Matthew Sleeman and John Barclay 
          The Book of Acts and the Cultural Explication of the Identity of God 
          The Ecclesiology of Acts 
          History, Hermeneutics, and the Unity of Luke-Acts 
          Literary Unity and Reception History: Reading Luke-Acts as Luke and Acts 
          Acts 2:36 and the Continuity of Lukan Christology 
          Authority and Community: Lukan Dominium in Acts 
Part 2: Biblical Studies and Theology in Practice: Readings in Paul 
          St. Paul and the Moral Law 
          The Trinity in the Letters of St. Paul and Hebrews 
          New Testament Iconography? Situating Paul in the Absence of Material Evidence 
          Romans 10:13: What Is the Name of the Lord? 
Bibliography 
Indexes