Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14

Braun, Willi

ISBN 10: 0521495539 / ISBN 13: 9780521495530

Published by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 1995

About this Item

hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a well preserved dust jacket, xii + 221pp.

Seller Inventory # 287493

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521495539
• ISBN 13: 9780521495530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

The writer of the Gospel of Luke is a Hellenistic writer who uses conventional modes of narration, characterization and argumentation to present Jesus in the manner of the familiar figure of the dinner sage. 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 contention that the point of the episode is directed primarily at the wealthy urban elite, who stand in most need of a transformation of character and values to fit them for membership of this society, points up the way in which gospel writers manipulated the inherited Jesus traditions for the purposes of ideological and social formation of Christian communities.