216 Kenneth D. Litwak deployed in the speech. Therefore, it is appropriate to consider how Luke has used the Scriptures of Israel in this speech in an effort to understand how Luke has used them throughout Luke-Acts. * ** This study has demonstrated that, far from Paul’s Areopagus speech merely having parallels with the Scriptures of Israel, Luke’s summary of Paul’s message is replete with echoes of well-known scriptural traditions, especially those reflected by Israel’s prophets. These intertextual echoes are used by Luke as part of a narrative technique known as framing in discourse, which provides clues to an audience as to how to understand the ensuing narrative or creates for the audience expectations about what sort of narrative they are about to encounter. This discursive framing points to continuity between Paul’s message, and prophetic oracles from Israel’s Scriptures that emphasize anti-idol polemic. This continuity within a historiogra- phical work serves to validate the message of Paul as from God and implicitly validates the faith of Luke’s audience who believe the message of the gospel. Luke’s use of the Scriptures of Israel in Paul’s speech, since they function to validate the faith of Luke’s audience as God’s people, is ecclesiological. Asbury Seminary Kenneth D. LITWAK 204 North Lexington Avenue Wilmore, KY 40390 USA SUMMARY Generally, treatments of Paul’s speech note biblical parallels to Paul’s wording but find no further significance to these biblical allusions. This study argues that Luke intends far more through this use of the Scriptures of Israel beyond merely providing sources for Paul’s language. I contend that, through the narrative technique of “framing in discourse”, Luke uses the Scriptures of Israel to lead his audience to interpret Paul’s speech as standing in continuity with anti-idol polemic of Israel’s prophets in the past. As such, read as historiography, Luke’s narrative uses this continuity to legitimate Paul’s message and by implication, the faith of Luke’s audience. Luke’s use of the Scriptures here is ecclesiological.