Melvin L. Otey

Zacchaeus, a Paradigmatic Prospect for Jesus: Luke’s Narrative Logic of Salvation in Luke 19:1–10

This study offers a narrative-critical reading of Luke 19:1–10, arguing that the Zacchaeus episode functions as the climactic resolution to themes developed throughout Luke’s travel narrative and answers the unresolved question, “Then who can be saved?” (18:26), by presenting a wealthy chief tax collector as an unexpec...