Semeia 64: The Rhetoric of Pronouncement
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“The key is to understand that paradigms function in the domain of inductive argumentation: they make their case by appeal to a particular example (παράδειγμα). In an inductive argument an example or a set of examples makes a conclusion probable. In a deductive argument such as a syllogism, if the syllogism is valid and the premises are true, then the conclusion is necessarily true.” (Pages 3–4)
“intended to be an enthusiastic announcement of a new life that will be devoted to the needs of others” (Page 203)
“For the real problem with the Temple system, which Jesus’ action exposes and opposes, is that ordinary people are for the most part deprived of their own offerings. Jesus opposes the Temple system as a system of exploitative redistribution for the benefit of the few. What would ‘prayer’ imply in place of this system?” (Page 266)
“Furthermore, he is a chief toll collector, one in a position to make big profits” (Page 202)
“ he is ‘Lord’ (v. 8) and source of salvation (vv. 9–10)” (Page 205)
- Øivind Andersen
- Alan J. Avery-Peck
- Brian K. Blount
- R. Bracht Branham
- Miriam Dean-Otting
- David B. Gowler
- Mark Ledbetter
- Burton L. Mack
- Douglas E. Oakman
- Rod Parrott
- Vernon K. Robbins
- Gregory Salyer
- Bernard Brandon Scott
- R. Marston Speight
- Robert C. Tannehill
- Title: Semeia 64: The Rhetoric of Pronouncement
- Editor: Daniel Patte
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1993
- Pages: 301
