Matthew S Narrative Web

Author : Janice Capel Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850754503

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Matthew's Narrative Web by Janice Capel Anderson Pdf

The Gospel of Matthew contains many repeated phrases and double stories. Scholars have usually used this as evidence to support various source theories. Taking a different approach, this book uses narrative and reader-response criticisms to explore the role verbal repetition plays in the rhetoric, characterization, and plot of the Gospel. The importance of variation, context, and the temporal dimension of narrative is highlighted. A concluding chapter treats two literary studies of repetition in modern narrative and the relation of narrative and reader-response criticisms to aural reception of the Gospels in the first century.

Author : Ruth Christa Mathieson
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628373318

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Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast by Ruth Christa Mathieson Pdf

Ruth Christa Mathieson’s unique reading of Matthew’s parable of the royal wedding feast (Matt 22:1–14), which concludes with the king’s demand that one of the guests be bound and cast out into the outer darkness, focuses on the means of the underdressed guest’s expulsion. Using sociorhetorical interpretation, Mathieson draws the parable into conversation with early Jewish narratives of the angel Raphael binding hands and feet (1 Enoch; Tobit) and the protocol for expelling individuals from the community in Matt 18. She asserts that readers are invited to consider if the person who is bound and cast out is a danger to the little ones of the community of faith unless removed and restrained.

Author : Warren Carter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567632357

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Households and Discipleship by Warren Carter Pdf

This study addresses the question of whether a coherent sequence of pericopes can be identified in Matthew chapters 19-20. Employing audience-oriented criticism, it argues that the authorial audience's knowledge of the philosophical tradition concerning household structures provides that coherent sequence. But the audience also encounters in these chapters a critique of the household tradition's patriarchal and hierarchical structure of the rule of husband over wife, father over children, master over slaves, and the accumulation of wealth as an indicator of social identity. It understands that the community of disciples is to exhibit more egalitarian patterns. this alternative structure is placed in the context of wider socio-cultural forces which were also resisting aspects of the conventional household pattern. Features of the alternative structure - opposition ot hierarchical structures, a more egalitarian pattern, a temporal framework, marginal social location, minimalization of gender differences and authority roles and relationships, opposition to wealth - can be seen as aspects of an existence which Victor Turner identifies as normative or permanent liminality. that is, the study of chapters 19-20 contributes significantly to the formulation of the larger pattern of Matthean discipleship.

Author : InHee C. Berg
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451470338

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Irony in the Matthean Passion Narrative by InHee C. Berg Pdf

Irony is a rhetorical and literary device for revealing what is hidden behind what is seen. This book provides a history of different definitions of irony, from Aristophanes to Booth; discusses the constitutive formal elements of irony and the functions of irony; and then studies particular aspects of the Matthean Passion Narrative.

Author : Derek S. Dodson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567153203

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Reading Dreams by Derek S. Dodson Pdf

Dodson reads the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Dodson describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world, and looks at the theories and classification of dreams that developed in the ancient world. He then moves on to demonstrate the literary dimensions of dreams in Greco-Roman literature. This exploration of the literary representation of dreams is nuanced by considering the literary form of dreams, dreams in the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, the inventiveness of literary dreams, and the literary function of dreams. The dreams in the Gospel of Matthew are then analyzed in this social and literary context. It is demonstrated that Matthew's use of dreams as a literary convention corresponds to the script of dreams in other Greco-Roman narratives. This correspondence includes the form of the Matthean dreams, dreams as a motif of the birth topos (1:18b-25), the association of dreams and prophecy (1:22-23; 2:15, 23), the use of the double-dream report (2:12 and 2:13-15), and dreams as an ominous sign in relation to an individual's death (27:19). An appendix considers the Matthean transfiguration as a dream-vision report.

Author : John Barnet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441152596

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Not the Righteous but Sinners by John Barnet Pdf

When critics study reader-character interaction in Matthew's Gospel, they tend to reach similar conclusions. The disciples are viewed as the link between Jesus and the readers. The supplicants and Pharisees serve as foils complementing the true meaning of discipleship.This study reconceptualizes the readers' role on the basis of M.M. Bakhtin's analysis of the author-hero relationship. The outcome of this reading strategy is that the readers must also interact with Jesus through the limited perspective of the major character groups, momentarily suspending the post-resurrection knowledge that all authority is g ranted to him. By encouraging the readers to identify with the Pharisees, the Gospel is able to constitute the readers as sinners, thereby establishing them in the supplicants' condition of need, and thus as the potential recipients of good news.This is volume 246 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series.

Author : Sylvia C. Keesmaat
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850759645

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Paul and His Story by Sylvia C. Keesmaat Pdf

Author : Gregg S. Morrison
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610977609

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The Turning Point in the Gospel of Mark by Gregg S. Morrison Pdf

Based on linguistic and thematic links in the narrative, The Turning Point in the Gospel of Mark argues that the twin pericopae of Peter's confession (8:27-38) and the Transfiguration (9:2-13) together function as the turning point of the Gospel and serve in a Janus-like manner enabling the reader to see the author's main focus: the identity of Jesus and the significance of that reality for his disciples. Peter's confession of Jesus as Messiah faces backward toward the Prologue (1:1-13) and functions as a mid-course conclusion. The declaration by God on the mountain faces forward and foreshadows the end-course conclusion (14:61-62; 15:39; Son of God). Jesus, in response, teaches that the Son of Man must suffer and die before being raised from the dead (8:31). Christologically, the images of Messiah, Son of Man, and Son of God converge and present Jesus, the crucified, as king, ushering in the kingdom of God in power (9:1 acting as the key swivel between the twin pericopae). When one is confronted with this Jesus, though there remains something elusive about him and the kingdom of God in the narrative, the only wise decision (after calculating the costs, 8:34-38) is to follow.

Author : Timothy Dwyer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850756033

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The Motif of Wonder in the Gospel of Mark by Timothy Dwyer Pdf

This is a study of the language of wonder or amazement, comparing its use in Graeco-Roman, early Jewish and early Christian literature to the Gospel of Mark. Mark's intensive use of wonder, often redactional, impels us to regard the passion and empty tomb scenes as manifesting God's presence. Mark is unique among the Gospels in the density of his wonder language, which signifies the breaking in of the rule of God. Miracles, teaching, restoration to community, passion and empty tomb are all marked as divine interventions in the Gospel by reactions of wonder.

Author : Alistair N. Shaw
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532670343

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Oral Transmission and the Dream Narratives of Matthew 1-2 by Alistair N. Shaw Pdf

The first Gospel has traditionally been considered a very Jewish work. Recent scholarship has suggested some Hellenistic influence. The issue is explored in this work with attention focused on the dream narratives of the first two chapters. An investigation is carried out using a new methodology. The memory techniques used in an oral or semi-literate society are explored. A search is made for such techniques in Matthew and these are then compared with similar devices in a wide range of literature, Old Testament, contemporary Jewish, Greek and Roman. The intention is that literary practice should help to clarify the cultural setting in which Matthew functions. This is a work which will interest New Testament scholars with a focus on Gospel studies and oral transmission. It may also appeal to some classical scholars or those with a specialized interest in Josephus.

Author : Todd D. Still
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841270036

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Conflict at Thessalonica by Todd D. Still Pdf

Author : Joshua E. Leim
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161538153

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Matthew's Theological Grammar by Joshua E. Leim Pdf

In this work, Joshua Leim attempts to bring greater clarity to the articulation of Jesus' identity in Matthew by attending more precisely to two linguistic patterns woven deeply into the entire narrative's presentation of Jesus: Matthew's christological use of "worship/obeisance" language (proskyneo) and his paternal-filial idiom. Along with exploring the role these linguistic patterns play in the narrative, the author attempts to hear such language in relation to early Judaism and its articulation of the identity of the God of Israel. The study of these various elements yields the conclusion that the identity of God and Jesus Christ are inseparably related in Matthew's Gospel. Matthew articulates the identity of Israel's God around the Father-Son relation.

Author : Sharon H. Ringe,H.C. Paul Kim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 056702590X

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Literary Encounters with the Reign of God by Sharon H. Ringe,H.C. Paul Kim Pdf

Recognized scholars honor Robert Tannehill in this Festschrift.

Author : Jeannine K. Brown
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004127135

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The Disciples in Narrative Perspective by Jeannine K. Brown Pdf

This study offers a narrative reading of Matthew arguing that the disciples frequently fail to understand Jesus, his mission and his message. The function of this portrayal for Matthew's story and in shaping his concept of discipleship is explored. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004373501

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Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

The twenty-five essays of Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond are offered by internationally recognized New Testament scholars to honor the deep and broad legacy of R. Alan Culpepper by presenting a snapshot of current research in the field.