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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521020671
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94728326
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Voice of Jesus in the Social Rhetoric of James
Author
Wesley Hiram Wachob
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Christianity
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
268 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
215mm
Item Width
139mm
Item Weight
364g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Wesley Hiram Wachob
Series Title
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series