The voice of Jesus in the social rhetoric of James / Wesley Hiram Wachob.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wachob, Wesley Hiram, author.

Series:

Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) ; 106.

Society for New Testament Studies monograph series ; 106

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. James II, 1-13--Socio-rhetorical criticism.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH AND THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION; 3 THE INNER TEXTURE OF JAMES 2.1...13; 4 THE INTERTEXTURE OF JAMES 2.1...13; 5 THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TEXTURE OF JAMES 2.1...13; 6 CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF SOURCES AND AUTHORS; INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-233) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-11789-5

0-511-15639-1

0-511-32925-3

1-280-42081-2

0-521-66069-6

0-511-48818-1

0-511-04858-0

0-511-17578-7

OCLC:

475915422