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Luke: Social world

Barreto, Eric D. ‘A Gospel on the Move: Practice, Proclamation, and Place in Luke-Acts’. Interpretation 72, no. 2 (2018) 175–87.

Brawley, Robert L. Luke: A Social Identity Commentary. London: T&T Clark, 2020.

Cassidy, Richard J. Jesus, Politics, and Society: A Study of Luke’s Gospel. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2015.

Elliott, John H. ‘Temple versus Household in Luke-Acts: A Contrast in Social Institutions’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 211–40. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993.

Esler, Philip F. Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Geertz, Clifford. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Klinghardt, Matthias. ‘Meals in the Gospel of Luke’. In T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World, edited by Soham Al-Suadi and Peter-Ben Smit, 108–20. London: T&T Clark, 2019.

Kloppenborg, John S. ‘Luke’s Geography: Knowledge, Ignorance, Sources, and Spatial Conception’. In Luke on Jesus, Paul, and Earliest Christianity: What Did He Really Know?, edited by J. Verheyden and John S. Kloppenborg, 101–43. Leuven: Peeters, 2017.

———. ‘The Dishonoured Master (Luke 16:1-8a)’. Biblica 70, no. 4 (1989) 474–95.

Malina, Bruce J., and Jerome H. Neyrey. ‘Honor and Shame in Luke-Acts: Pivotal Values of the Mediterranean World’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 25–65. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1991.

Neyrey, Jerome H. ‘Ceremonies in Luke-Acts: The Case of Meals and Table Fellowship’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 361–87. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1991.

———. The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1991.

Paulraj, Gideon Sam Simeon. Food Justice and Hospitality in Luke-Acts: A Historical and Contemporary Interpretation. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2023.

Robbins, Vernon K. ‘The Social Location of the Implied Author of Luke-Acts’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 305–32. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1991.

Acts: Social World

Barreto, Eric D. ‘A Gospel on the Move: Practice, Proclamation, and Place in Luke-Acts’. Interpretation 72, no. 2 (2018) 175–87.

Cassidy, Richard J. Society and Politics in the Acts of the Apostles. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2015.

Elliott, John H. ‘Temple versus Household in Luke-Acts: A Contrast in Social Institutions’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 211–40. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993.

Esler, Philip F. Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Geertz, Clifford. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Hylen, Susan E. Women in the New Testament World. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Lents, Hannah. ‘Third Space in Paul’s Areopagus Speech’. In Acts of the Apostles, edited by Linda M. Maloney and Ivoni Richter Reimer, 45:247–53. Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical, 2022.

Malina, Bruce J., and Jerome H. Neyrey. ‘Honor and Shame in Luke-Acts: Pivotal Values of the Mediterranean World’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 25–65. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1991.

Myers, Alicia D. An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Neyrey, Jerome H. ‘Ceremonies in Luke-Acts: The Case of Meals and Table Fellowship’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 361–87. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1991.

———. The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1991.

Paulraj, Gideon Sam Simeon. Food Justice and Hospitality in Luke-Acts: A Historical and Contemporary Interpretation. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2023.

Penner, Todd C., and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds. Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Robbins, Vernon K. ‘Luke-Acts: A Mixed Population Seeks a Home in the Roman Empire’. In Images of Empire, edited by Loveday Alexander, 202–21. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 122. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1991.

———. ‘The Social Location of the Implied Author of Luke-Acts’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 305–32. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1991.

Rowe, C. Kavin. World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Spencer, F. Scott. Journeying through Acts: A Literary and Cultural Reading. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2004.

Witherington, III, Ben. The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans, 1998.