Luke provides valuable clues to an understanding of the religious and political power of the Roman Empire through Jesuss birth and trial accounts. Also, the book analyzes what role Lukes tax-related accounts play in relation to the emperors authority. This volume presents a new argument: Luke emphasizes Jesuss interaction with tax collectors as a way of displaying his moral authority, seen in his intervening effectively with one of the most hated aspects of the empire, an aspect that the emperor was responsible for and should have dealt with. This analysis helps us examine Lukes portrayal of...