Casimir Bernas

Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“[This] meticulously detailed and argued treatise successfully first describes at length and then applies a 'socio-narratological' approach and modern theories in literature to elucidate the portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts . . . . Gowler's interdisciplinary study is valuable for opening to biblical scholars the terra incognita of modern characterization theories; . . . such theories indicate once again that texts from classical antiquity and modern literature can indeed illuminate matters biblical.”