Intratextuality in Luke: Connecting the Emmaus Road with the Boy in the Temple. (November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: James, Rob
• Is Part Of: Expository times. Volume 132:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 63
• Page End: 70
• Publication Date: 2020-11
• Subjects: 200
• DOI: 10.1177/0014524620946998
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0014-5246

Abstract

The story of the boy Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2:41–51) and of the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13–35) are compared and are shown to be likely to be a deliberate piece of intratextuality on the part of the author of the Gospel of Luke. Four main agreements between the stories are examined. A motive for the intratextuality is also proposed in that it fits in very well with Luke's overall theological approach to the poor and the powerless.