Lukes Gospel- Biblical Criticism

Definition                                                                                 

• Views the evangelists as story tellers & the gospels as stories
• Explores the text in its final form
• Analyses the Gospels as stories with narrative feautures such as structure, setting, plot, characters, audience and themes

Method

Author & Reader

• Narrative critics distinguish between the real and implied author of the text
• Real author is the actual person who wrote the text e.g Luke
• Implied author is what we can find out about the author using the text alone e.g Lukes values and perspectives
• N C also distinguishes between the real and implied reader of the text
• The real reader is who the text is written for e.g Theophilus
• The implied reader is everyone else who reads the text e.g universalism

Setting

• Setting of a story may be temporal
• Physical/ spatial (happening in different places)
• Social & Cultural (Where the story is set and why)

Characters

• Characterisation refers to how characters are portrayed in the narrative and how this is achieved through the authors own description
• designed to influence the readers response, evoking sympathy for some characters…