Luke 10-24

Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015. Shelly Matthews holds a ThD from Harvard Divinity School and is professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas. She is the general editor for the SBL Press series Early Christianity and Its Literature and the cofounder and cochair of the SBL Program Unit Racism, Pedagogy and Biblical Studies. Her books include Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction and Study Guide: Taming the Tongues of Fire  (T&T Clark, 2017). She is currently writing a monograph under the working title A Feminist Guide to Early Christian Resurrection: Justice, Authority, Presence. Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015.

List of Abbreviations vii
Luke 10:1-42 Seventy Men Empowered,
               Mary and Martha Restrained 341
Luke 11:1-54 Prayer, Exorcism, Religious Polemic 363
Luke 12:1-59 Lilies Do Not Spin, Families Divide,
               Slave Relations Remain 389
Luke 13:1-35 The Basileia Manifest in Women’s Healing
                and Women’s Work 407
Luke 14:1-35 Who Is Coming to Dinner? 419
Luke 15:1-32 Losing, Finding, and Rejoicing 439
Luke 16:1-31 Rich Men and Their Money 453
Luke 17:1-37 The Complex Processes of Forgiveness 473
Luke 18:1-43 Widows, Little Children, and Alternate Families 487
Luke 19:1-48 An Angry King and a Weeping Messiah 505
Luke 20:1-47 Equal to the Angels 523
Luke 21:1-38 A Muted Apocalypse 543
Luke 22:1-71 A Meal, an Arrest, and a Slave Woman’s Truth 557
Luke 23:1-56 The Last Words of the Dying Innocent 595
Luke 24:1-53 To Have Seen or Not to Have Seen:
               Appearances of the Resurrected Jesus
               and Their Authorizing Significance 625
Afterword 657
Works Cited 659
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings 686
Index of Subjects 699