The voice of Jesus in the social rhetoric of James
This programmatic socio-rhetorical investigation approaches the Epistle of James as an instance of written deliberative rhetoric, and it seeks to ascertain the social texture of James 2.5, a rhetorical performance of language that in other contexts is explicitly attributed to Jesus. Utilizing the co...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2000.
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| In: | Year: 2000 |
| Series/Journal: | Society for New Testament Studies monograph series
106 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
James
/ Socio-historical exegesis
/ Rhetoric
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. James II, 1-13
Socio-rhetorical criticism
B Bible ; James II, 1-13 ; Socio-rhetorical criticism |
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Print version: 9780521660693 |
| Summary: | This programmatic socio-rhetorical investigation approaches the Epistle of James as an instance of written deliberative rhetoric, and it seeks to ascertain the social texture of James 2.5, a rhetorical performance of language that in other contexts is explicitly attributed to Jesus. Utilizing the conventions of Greco-Roman rhetoric, Dr Wachob successively probes the inner texture, the intertexture, the social and cultural texture, and the ideological implications of the rhetoric in James 2.1-13. He analyses James' activation of antecedent texts in the LXX, common conceptions and topics in the broader culture, and also sayings in the Jesus tradition. He concludes that James emanates from the same milieu as the pre-Matthean Sermon on the Mount and shows James 2.5 to be an artful performance of the principal beatitude in that early epitome of Jesus' teachings. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511488181 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511488184 |