Andrew Benko is Academic Dean of the Iona School for Ministry and serves as a priest in the Diocese of Texas (Episcopal).

In this richly detailed, elegantly written, and thoughtful book, Andrew Benko explores Luke’s “racial reasoning” using an “ethnos-conscious approach”. Setting his analysis of Luke in the context of other Jewish, Greek and Roman writings, Benko explores the various ways in which Luke appeals to ancestry, and especially to Abraham, to construct the identity of Christ-believers as well as to configure their relationship to (other) Judeans. He also conducts this primarily historical enquiry with a sensitivity to its contemporary implications, and to the ambivalent legacy that such texts bequeath to us.

• Introduction: From These StonesChapter 1: Ethnos and Racial Fluidity in AntiquityChapter 2: “The Rock from Which You Were Hewn”: Abraham in Judean Racial ReasoningChapter 3: “Our Ancestor Abraham”: Abraham in the Infancy NarrativesChapter 4: “We have a father—Abraham”: Abraham as Ancestor and Ethnic Founder in LukeChapter 5: Whose Ancestors? Genealogical Reconfiguration in Luke-ActsConclusion: Carving a New People from an Old BlockBibliographyAbout the Author

Andrew Benko is Academic Dean of the Iona School for Ministry and serves as a priest in the Diocese of Texas (Episcopal).

In this richly detailed, elegantly written, and thoughtful book, Andrew Benko explores Luke’s “racial reasoning” using an “ethnos-conscious approach”. Setting his analysis of Luke in the context of other Jewish, Greek and Roman writings, Benko explores the various ways in which Luke appeals to ancestry, and especially to Abraham, to construct the identity of Christ-believers as well as to configure their relationship to (other) Judeans. He also conducts this primarily historical enquiry with a sensitivity to its contemporary implications, and to the ambivalent legacy that such texts bequeath to us.

• Introduction: From These StonesChapter 1: Ethnos and Racial Fluidity in AntiquityChapter 2: “The Rock from Which You Were Hewn”: Abraham in Judean Racial ReasoningChapter 3: “Our Ancestor Abraham”: Abraham in the Infancy NarrativesChapter 4: “We have a father—Abraham”: Abraham as Ancestor and Ethnic Founder in LukeChapter 5: Whose Ancestors? Genealogical Reconfiguration in Luke-ActsConclusion: Carving a New People from an Old BlockBibliographyAbout the Author

Andrew Benko is Academic Dean of the Iona School for Ministry and serves as a priest in the Diocese of Texas (Episcopal).

In this richly detailed, elegantly written, and thoughtful book, Andrew Benko explores Luke’s “racial reasoning” using an “ethnos-conscious approach”. Setting his analysis of Luke in the context of other Jewish, Greek and Roman writings, Benko explores the various ways in which Luke appeals to ancestry, and especially to Abraham, to construct the identity of Christ-believers as well as to configure their relationship to (other) Judeans. He also conducts this primarily historical enquiry with a sensitivity to its contemporary implications, and to the ambivalent legacy that such texts bequeath to us.

• Introduction: From These StonesChapter 1: Ethnos and Racial Fluidity in AntiquityChapter 2: “The Rock from Which You Were Hewn”: Abraham in Judean Racial ReasoningChapter 3: “Our Ancestor Abraham”: Abraham in the Infancy NarrativesChapter 4: “We have a father—Abraham”: Abraham as Ancestor and Ethnic Founder in LukeChapter 5: Whose Ancestors? Genealogical Reconfiguration in Luke-ActsConclusion: Carving a New People from an Old BlockBibliographyAbout the Author