Part I: Introduction -- Problem -- Previous research and its evaluation -- Purpose of this study -- Part II: Dividing the dead: the Hellenistic matrix -- Preliminary remarks: from fixed parallels to intertextuality -- Differentiated fates in Greco-Roman sources -- Differentiated fates: only an elite view? -- Differentiated fates in Jewish sources -- Summary of part two -- Part III: Luke's description of the hereafter in context -- Preliminary remarks: the function of the afterlife scene -- Structural themes of the story -- Details of the description -- Summary of part three -- Part IV: Afterlife imagery in Luke-Acts -- Preliminary remarks: a consistent eschatological scheme? -- Rich man and Lazarus and Luke's eschatology -- Fate of the individual after death -- Summary of part four -- Conclusions.
