Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521495530)

In this original and thought-provoking study, Willi Braun draws both on social and literary evidence regarding the Greco-Roman elite banquet scene and on ancient prescribed methods of rhetorical composition to argue that the Pharisaic dinner episode in Luke 14 is a skillfully crafted rhetorical unit in which Jesus presents an argument for Luke's vision of a Christian society. His analysis underscores the way in which gospel writers manipulated the inherited Jesus traditions for the purposes of ideological and social formation of Christian communities.

Author: Willi Braun
ISBN-10: 0521495539
ISBN-13: 9780521495530
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/25/1995
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.71w x 0.82d