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This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Luke is a result of twofold, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians. The ideas of this letter were illustrated with the use of literary motifs taken from other NT works, classical Greek works, the Septuagint, the Damascus Document, and the works of Flavius Josephus.

This monograph demonstrates that the Fourth Gospel is a detailed, sequentially organized reworking of the Acts of the Apostles. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts explains John's modifications of the synoptic material, relocations thereof, additions to it, and many other surprising features of the Fourth Gospel.