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Nationalism is an important issue to consider in the study of postcolonialism. It is strongly linked to imperialism. It is necessary to look at nationalism and its implications in Luke-Acts and to pursue the relationship between nationalism and Luke-Acts in the light of postcolonial discourse. I shall attempt to deal with three important issues in this study. First of all, I look at the issue of nationalism as a postcolonial concern. I investigate the definitions of the term 'nationalism' and the relationship between nationalism and postcolonial discourse. Secondly, I examine the liberative aspect of nationalism in Luke-Acts connected to Jewish nationalist struggles against Roman Empire. I deal with the issues of the presence of Roman Empire, its taxation system in connection with the issue of nationalism, and the centrality of Jerusalem and the Temple in Luke-Acts. Finally, I would like to reread and reinterpret the narrative in Luke 13:1-9, which contains the issue of nationalism, in the light of postcolonial biblical reading. As examining the issue of nationalism as a postcolonial concern in Luke-Acts, it seems that the Jewish nationalist movement has strong implications in Luke-Acts. These Jewish nationalist resistant movements only exist because of the presence of the Roman imperialism. However, Luke does not seem to mention the presence of the Jewish nationalist movement in his writings. Furthermore, most Lucan commentators tend to overtook the political issues connected to Jewish nationalism, and they strive to deny the possibility and potentiality of liberation struggles against Roman imperial power. Therefore, if we reread the texts of Luke-Acts in the light of postcolonial reading practices, we find that Luke-Acts do deal with the issue of nationalism. Although Luke lives under the domination and oppression of the Roman Empire, he does not promote the nationalist resistant movement against Roman imperial power. It seems that Luke tacitly approves of Roman imperial dominance. Most Lucan interpreters, who tend to overlook the political issues in Luke-Acts, are writing from a Eurocentric interpretative perspective. By ignoring the resistant voices connected to the Jewish liberation struggles in Luke-Acts, they seem to justify western-centred colonial discourses. In addition, we need to reread the position of Luke and to reinterpret Lucan commentators' interpretation in the light of postcolonial discourse. We can discover hidden voices, that is, the resistant voices connected to the issue of nationalism, as a result of rereading and reinterpreting the texts of Luke-Acts by means of postcolonial biblical reading.
