Mikeal C. Parsons 
Body and Character in Luke and Acts [PDF ebook] 
The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity

Introduction

1 Soul and Body React on Each Other: Body and Character in Greek and Roman Literature

2 The Movement of the Body Is a Voice of the Soul: Body and Character in Early Jewish and Christian Literature

3 Your Eye Is the Lamp of Your Body: Luke and the Body-Soul Relationship

4 Ought Not This Daughter of Abraham Be Set Free?: Getting the Story of the Bent Woman Straight

5 Short in Stature, Son of Abraham: The Height of Hospitality in the Story of Zacchaeus

6 His Feet and Ankles Were Made Strong: Signs of Character in the Man Lame from Birth

7 What Is to Prevent Me?: Ambiguity, Acceptance, and the Ethiopian Eunuch

Epilogue

Appendix: Abbreviations from the Progymnasmata

Mikeal C. Parsons is the Kidd L. and Buna Hitchcock Macon Chair in Religion at Baylor University. He is the author of numerous books including most recently Luke: A Handbook on the Greek Text and Acts: A Handbook on the Greek Text, and the editor of The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation. Parsons lives in Waco, Texas.