Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14

By Willi Braun

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521495539
• ISBN13: 9780521495530
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"