Luke on Jesus, Paul and Christianity: What Did He Really Know?

The present volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International

Symposium of the Leuven Centre for the Study of the Gospels which was

dedicated to various aspects of Luke’s writings that all have to do with

his knowledge of the world he is describing in his work. The symposium

studied a number of topics relating to the social world of earliest

Christianity. Contributors had been asked to address, if relevant, (1)

the history of research for the theme that had been assigned to them,

(2) recent developments in assessing the relationship between Gospel and

Acts and the dating of both works, and (3) the implications that can be

drawn from studying the evidence of Luke-Acts for reconstructing the

life-world of the first Christian communities. Contributors include

Giovanni Bazzana, Mark Bilby, Michelle Christian, Jens Herzer, John

Kloppenborg, Manfred Lang, Markus Oehler, Thomas Phillips, Dieter Roth,

Dan Smith, and Arjan Zuiderhoek.