Väterfiguren im lukanischen Gedächtnisgemälde
Die identitätsstiftende Funktion von Abraham, Mose und David in der intentionalen Geschichtsschreibung des Lukas
By (author) Carolin Ziethe
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(November 2026)
ISBN: 9783162006196
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $261.00
For Luke, Abraham, Moses, and David are more than prehistory. Carolin Ziethe shows how he weaves the three father figures into a Gedächtnisgemälde – a tableau of memory – that anchors his account of Jesus and the early church in the history of Israel and orients the Lukan community both inwardly and outwardly.
Luke roots the founding narrative of his Gospel and Acts in the history of Israel, weaving the two inseparably together. In doing so, he establishes continuity with Israel’s past while also meeting the expectations of Greco-Roman historiography. Abraham, Moses, and David stand at the center of this project: they appear as remembered figures from Israel’s foundational past – for instance in father-centered historical retrospectives – and are also invoked to support theological claims in hymnic, narrative, and argumentative contexts.
Carolin Ziethe examines the function of these three father figures within what Knut Backhaus has called Luke’s Gedächtnisgemälde, his intentional historiography in the sense developed by Hans-Joachim Gehrke. Drawing on cultural memory studies (Jan Assmann) and on research into identity figures and exempla, she shows how Abraham, Moses, and David, as personified elements of the community’s origin story, give insight into how the Lukan community understood itself.
All three father figures are shaped toward the present of the world Luke narrates. Through them, Luke anchors the divine work of salvation – as it unfolds in and through Christ – deep in the history of Israel, and at the same time gives that history a distinctively Christological profile. The three portraits do double duty: outwardly, they support Luke’s apologetic and legitimizing strategy toward the Greco-Roman world; inwardly, they serve his community as a source of identity, reassurance, and practical orientation within Luke’s vision of the past.
1 Einleitung
1.1 Abraham, Mose und David im Gemälde des Lukas
1.2 Die doppelte Verortung: frühjüdische und griechisch-römische Väterrezeption
1.3 Einordnung in die Forschung
1.4 Methodische und hermeneutische Aspekte
1.5 Vorhaben und Aufbau der Arbeit
2 Abraham
2.1 Erinnerung an die Geschichte Abrahams - Apg 7,1-8.17
2.2 Gottes Erbarmen als Verheißung für Abrahams Kinder
2.3 Wer sind Abrahams Kinder?
2.4 Die Verheißung erfüllt sich - Apg 3,12-26
2.5 Abraham lehrt seine Kinder: Ein Gespräch im Jenseits über die Bedeutung von Mose und Propheten - Lk 16,19-31
2.6 Die lukanische Abrahamzeichnung
3 Mose
3.1 Erinnerung an die Mosegeschichte und seine Stilisierung zur Führungsgestalt - Apg 7,20-40
3.2 Mose als Präfiguration für Jesus: die Mose-Christus-Typologie
3.3 Mose und das Gesetz des Mose
3.4 Die lukanischen Mosezeichnung
4 David
4.1 Erinnerung an die Daviderzählung
4.2 David und die Schrift
4.3 Jesus der Sohn Davids
4.4 Die Erfüllung der davidischen Herrschaftsverheißung
4.5 Die lukanische Davidzeichnung 395
5 Abraham - Mose - David. Das lukanische Väterbild
5.1 Drei lukanische Väterportraits
5.2 Grundlegende Charakteristika der lukanischen Väterrezeption
5.3 Verbindungslinien: Komplementäre Aspekte der Figurenzeichnung
5.4 Die Funktion der Väter für das Selbstverständnis der Gemeinde
5.5 Fazit
- By (author) Carolin Ziethe
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