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I. Luke-Acts: It's interest and unity -- II Factors in composition -- Part I The material -- III Stages in the history of the material -- V Forms in the transmission of the material -- VI Immediate written sources -- VII The gospel of Mark -- VIII Q -- Part II The common methods -- IX The Common Language -- X Literary Types -- XI Popular forms -- XII Treatment of predecessors -- XIII Treatment predecessors: a parallel from Josephus -- XIV Speeches, letters and canticles -- XV Literary formalia -- Part III The personality of the Author -- XVI Language and style -- XVII Social and religious attitudes -- Theological attitudes -- Part IV. The purpose of the author -- XX The object of Luke-Acts -- XXI Plan and scope of his task -- XXII Approach to his subject -- XXIII Authorship and accuracy