Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE: CURRENT STATUS OF RESEARCH AND A METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATION -- CHAPTER 1: UNDERSTANDING TODAY'S SCHOLARLY LANDSCAPE: JESUS' FOUR LUKAN GALILEAN MINISTRY SPEECHES -- I. Previous Investigation of the Four Galilean Ministry Speeches -- II. Investigation of the Narrative Discourse of Luke-Acts -- III. Concluding Summary -- CHAPTER TWO: A METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATION FOR INVESTIGATION: TOWARDS READING AS CONDUCTION -- I. Constructing Meaning: Combination, Selection, and the Imaginary -- II. Concluding Summary -- CHAPTER THREE: GRECO-ROMAN RHETORICAL ARGUMENT: DELINEATING RHETORICAL TEXTURE -- I. Greco-Roman Handbook Rhetoric -- II. Delineating the Parameters of Rhetorical Texture -- III. Speeches in Ancient Greco-Roman Narrative -- IV. Concluding Summary -- PART TWO: RHETORICAL TEXTURE OF THE FOUR LUKAN GALILEAN MINISTRY SPEECHES -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE FIRST GALILEAN MINISTRY SPEECH (4.14-30): HOMETOWN SYNAGOGUE REJECTS NEW PATRONAL BOUNDARIES -- I. Rhetorical Situation -- II. Rhetorical Texture -- III. Concluding Summary -- CHAPTER FIVE: THE SECOND GALILEAN MINISTRY SPEECH (6.17-49): A NEW ETHICAL MODE OF (NON-RECIPROCAL) BENEFACTION -- I. Rhetorical Situation -- II. Rhetorical Argument -- III. Rhetorical Texture -- IV. Concluding Summary -- CHAPTER SIX: THE THIRD GALILEAN MINISTRY SPEECH (7.24-35): JESUS, JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND THEIR DISCIPLES AND OPPONENTS -- I. Rhetorical Situation -- II. Rhetorical Texture -- III. Concluding Summary -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE FOURTH GALILEAN MINISTRY SPEECH (LK. 8.4-18): SOWING CHARACTER TAXONOMIES FOR THE IMPLIED READER -- I. Rhetorical Situation -- II. Rhetorical Texture -- III. Concluding Summary -- PART THREE: NARRATIVE TRAJECTORIES AND HERMENEUTICAL APPROPRIATION BY AUTHORIAL READERS.

CHAPTER EIGHT: RHETORICAL TEXTURE AND NARRATIVE TRAJECTORIES: GENERATION OF PLOT, CHARACTERIZATION, AND TOPOI -- I. A Methodological Basis and Framework -- II. Framing the Narrative Discourse: Lukan Prologue -- III. The First Galilean Ministry Speech -- IV. The Second Galilean Ministry Speech -- V. The Third Galilean Ministry Speech -- VI. The Fourth Galilean Ministry Speech -- VII. Concluding Summary -- CHAPTER NINE: HERMENEUTICAL APPROPRIATION BY AUTHORIAL READERS AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION -- I. Getting from Implied Reader to Authorial Readers -- II. Appropriation by Authorial Readers -- III. Identifying Different Authorial Readers -- IV. Authorial Readers and Ideological Transformation -- V. Concluding Summary -- PART FOUR: CONCLUDING SUMMARY - FROM GALILEE TO ROME -- CHAPTER TEN: CONCLUSION: RHETORICAL TEXTURE, NARRATIVE TRAJECTORIES, AND APPROPRIATION BY AUTHORIAL READERS -- I. Concluding Comments on Rhetorical Texture -- II. Concluding Comments on Narrative Trajectories -- III. Concluding Comments on Redactional Indicators -- IV. Luke-Acts Unity -- V. Representation of the Jewish People -- VI. The Lukan Community -- VII. Methodological Implications -- VIII. Concluding Summary -- Figure 1: A Hermeneutical Model: Reading as Conduction -- Figure 2: Sowing Character Taxonomies -- Bibliography -- Index of References -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.