On Character Building: The Reader and the Rhetoric of Characterization in Luke-Acts

by John A. Darr

This guide to interpreting the characters in Luke-Acts, the longest and most complex of New Testament narratives, uses the latest literary-critical theory and biblical scholarship to construct an understanding of how the characters are formed and how they function in the Lukan writings. It is the author's contention that the reader plays an important role in character building. The author illustrates this process using three representative characters or character John the Baptist, the Pharisees, and Herod the Tetrarch.

Genres: Biblical Studies

208 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1992

Reviews

[JD Veer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very interesting read!

They are a lot of great tools of interpretation in there. I'm not sure I would recommend this book, but I sure hope more and more people will become interested in narratology. It makes for a great new perspective on the text! (Asking : How is the story told and what is its effect on us? or How is the built of the text suppose to influence my reading of it?)