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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521495530
- ISBN-10: 0521495539
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: August 1995
- Dimensions: 8.78 x 5.71 x 0.82 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 236
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