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New Testament Hospitality: Partnership with Strangers as Promise and Mission . By John Koenig. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. $9.95 (paper).

Luke-Acts. While the author correctly admits that many models of soteriology are operative in Luke-Acts, he builds a solid case for his conviction that the Adam-Jesus comparison has a special structural importance in both volumes. The book represents a nuanced and illuminating application of redaction criticism in its investigation of the Lukan passion narrative. Moving beyond the traditional questions of source and historicity in earlier studies, Neyrey engages in a penetrating analysis of Luke as editor-author. The informed lay reader is helped by a clear style, overviews, summaries of the data, and the avoidance of technical exegetical jargon. Of especial interest and value is the focus on Acts as an interpretive key to Luke's redaction purposes in his two-volume work but with a particular focus on the passion account. Earlier redaction scholars have pointed to the imperativeness of exegeting Luke's gospel from this perspective. And Neyrey effectively illustrates how Luke brought the Gospel account of Jesus' passion into harmony with the early history of the Church which Acts narrates. The author, a doctoral graduate of Yale University in New Testament, is currently a professor at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge MA. The book is a must for any serious student of Lukan studies, certainly for professor and library. The author's thorough acquaintance with and perceptive grasp of relevant antecedent scholarship makes it a significant addition to the field. In a graduate course on Luke or the passion narratives, it is an accessible and necessary tool for student as well. Since it is written for the biblically literate, while "reader-friendly" as the author states, even upper division undergraduates would require guidance to pursue its insightful content.