Literary Devices in Gospel of Luke
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
All roads lead to Jerusalem. This is where the story begins, with Gabriel's appearance to Zechariah in Jerusalem's temple (1:8-20); and this is where the story ends, with the disciples praising God...
Genre
It's All In the PrefaceLuke makes it pretty easy for us. Right in the preface (1:1-4), he prompts readers to expect that a history will follow. And sure enough, Luke and its second volume Acts are...
What's Up With the Title?
You thought you were going to get off easy here, but no such luck. There's more to "Luke" than you might think.The Greek manuscripts that we have today record two options for the title of Luke: a l...
What's Up With the Ending?
First things first. The book of Acts is Luke's second volume. That means the ending of Luke is like the ending of any good book for which sequels are planned: think Twilight, The Hunger Games, Harr...
Trivia
P75 is a pretty dull name for something actually kind of exciting: the earliest surviving papyrus with portions of Luke's gospel. We're talking late 2nd or early 3rd century. The question is how th...
Sex Drugs And Violence Rating
A PG-13 rating might come as a surprise in light of all of those Luke-based G-rated Christmas pageants and Sunday school lessons out there. But read carefully and you'll see that Luke is full of re...
Allusions
Fyodor Dostoevsky's DevilsFyodor Dostoevsky uses Luke 8:32-35 as an epigraph to his novel the Devils, an exposé of political evil in a small provincial Russian town. In Luke's verses, a gang of de...