There is in fact something else going on here, something a bit more sinister than simply a failure to notice scriptural quotations and their significance. Especially in the works of Bultmann’s followers like Conzelmann and Käsemann, and those influenced by them, it became axiomatic that Luke had falsified the gospel by turning it into a historical narrative. This meant that he couldn’t have held any “atonement theology,” since in the presuppositions such scholars were working with, a “historicized” gospel stands over against the meaning of the cross. Here we see the same false antithesis
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