What is the meaning and purpose of Jesus’ death in Luke?

Bock, Darrell L. 2012. A Theology of Luke and Acts. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Brown, Raymond E. 1994. The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels. New York: Doubleday. This is a massive commentary with references to Luke’s passion narrative spread throughout the text (it is also 2 volumes).

Doble, Peter. 1996. The Paradox of Salvation: Luke’s Theology of the Cross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Garrett, Susan R. 1990. “Exodus from Bondage: Luke 9.31 and Acts 12.1-24,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly (52), p 656-80.

Jipp, Joshua W. 2010. “Luke’s Scriptural Suffering Messiah: A Search for Precedent, a Search for Identity.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly (72).

Kloppenborg, John S. 1992. “Exitus clari viri: The Death of Jesus in Luke,” Toronto Journal of Theology (8), p 106-20.

Marshall, I. Howard. 2011. “The Place of Acts 20.28 in Luke’s Theology of the Cross” in Reading Acts Today: Essays in Honour of Loveday A.C. Alexander. ed. Steve Walton, Thomas E. Phillips, and Lloyd Keith.London: T&T Clark. p 154-70.

Parsons, Mikeal C. 2007. Luke: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. Peabody: Hendrickson. 

Senior, Donald. 1990. The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. Collegeville, MN: Glazier.

Sterling, Gregory. 2001. “Mors Philosophi: The Death of Jesus in Luke,” Harvard Theological Review (94), p 383-402.

Tabb, Brian J. 2015. “Is the Lucan Jesus a ‘Martyr’? A Critical Assessment of a Scholarly Consensus,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly (77), p 280-301.