Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14
Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14

Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14

in Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

by Willi Braun

Pages 236
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Published 8/1/2005
ISBN-13 9780521018852
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.

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