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The Proverbs of Jesus - Issues of History and Rhetoric (Hardcover)
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The Proverbs of Jesus - Issues of History and Rhetoric (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
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Was Jesus a prophet of the eschatological Kingdom or a teacher of
wisdom? These two characterizations of Jesus appear to be
incompatible and, since the last century, the former has dominated
our understanding of the Gospels at the expense of the latter.
Proverbial sayings in the Synoptics have either been pressed into
the service of eschatology-and have thus lost their character as
wisdom-or have been disregarded as 'inauthentic', representing a
later stage in the tradition. This book offers a critique of the
method of historical reconstruction which leads to such
conclusions. It also suggests an approach to the rhetoric or
function of proverbial sayings, based on pragmatics, which develops
the distinction between sense and force and offers some account of
the rhetorical strategies involved in the use of proverbs in
speech. A final chapter attempts to show how proverbial sayings
might be given more significance in our understanding of Jesus'
message through a reconsideration of the relationship between
wisdom, eschatology and the Kingdom of God.
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