Parables and Rhetoric in the Sermon on the Mount
New Approaches to a Classical Text
by Ernst Baasland
Hardback (Published)
(July 2015)
ISBN: 9783161541025
6.57 x 9.13 inches
Price: $287.00
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Parable research has to a large degree ignored the Sermon on the Mount (SM) and for its part, research into the SM has likewise left the parables by the wayside. However, the use of parabolic language in more than one third of the SM influences its interpretation and indeed opens up a new approach to it. In the current volume, Ernst Baasland focuses on this important factor, whilst also taking the rhetoric of Jesus’ teaching into consideration. The author maintains that rhetorical features have a great bearing on the interpretation of the text with the overall structure illuminating the entire composition of the sermon.
Parable research has to a large degree ignored the Sermon on the Mount (SM) – and research on the SM has vice versa overlooked the parables. The fact that more than one third of the SM employs parabolic language influences interpretation of the text and as a result opens up a new approach. Ernst Baasland makes this, along with the sermon’s rhetoric, the focus of his study in this volume. He shows that the rhetorical features impact greatly on the interpretation of the text with the overall rhetorical structure illuminating the entire composition. Insights into the rhetoric of the SM therefore serve to challenge the source problem in a new way.The parables and rhetoric of the Sermon on the Mount clarify its religious and philosophical setting. These factors, coupled with an examination of parallels in Jewish and Graeco-Roman literature, lead to a better understanding of this classical text and its philosophy of life being gained.
- By (author) Ernst Baasland
"[...] No one doing serious work on the Sermon on the Mount can afford to bypass this book... Anyone working on this, perhaps the greatest speech in history, cannot afford to be without Baasland as a mountain guide." --Samuel Lamerson, Knox Seminary, Review of Biblical Literature 11.9.17
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