Genre and the Gospels<i>What Are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography</i>. Richard A. Burridge

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“…For example, it was common practice in Greco-Roman associations to integrate new members into the ways of their guild. 10 Similarly, victors of the games were also integrated through special ceremonies. 11 The integrative function of the Sermon is also evident from the way the Sermon follows soon after Jesus' formal appointment of his disciples (Lk 6: [13][14][15][16][17][18]).…”

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“…9 For example, it is said that Agamemnon often used νεῖκος (reproof or taunt) as the linguistic medium to stir the slackers among his warriors to action. 10 Thus, as a cultural paradigm, (praise and) blame acted as the language of social control in everyday life. 11 The longstanding historical importance of praise in Greek culture is re-enforced by Pindar's assertion that: ἦν γε μὰν επικώμιος ὕμνος δή παλαι καὶ πρὶν γενέσθαι τὰν Ἀδράστου τάν τε Καδμείων ἔριν.…”

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“…127, 136. 10 For example, Homer reports: Μενέλαος ἀνίστατο καὶ μετέειπε νείκει ὀνειδίζων…ὤ μοι ἀπειλητῆρες Ἀχαιΐδες οὐκέτ᾽ Ἀχαιοί. Menelaus arose among them and spake, chiding them with words of reviling, 'Ah me, Ye braggarts, ye women of Achaea, men no more!…”

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“…John Elliot, for example, argues that Luke uses familial relations, domestic crises, and responsibilities of household management (11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21) as the basis for illuminating significant features of life in the Kingdom of God. 87 In this Kingdom/Household, God is experienced as a merciful, generous, and forgiving 'father' (Lk 2:49;6:36;9:36;(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)11:1,13;12:30,…”

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“…The notion of excellence was defined in terms of strength, agility, bravery, wealth, wisdom, or magnanimity. 10 It was a product of acts of valour in battle, triumph at the games, or a special endowment of divine favour. 11 Thus, honour belonged to those who had distinguished themselves and were recognised as exceptional.…”

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Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel : The Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20-49) and Greco-Roman Panegyrics

Ndekha

2023

Bible in Africa Studies

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This volume is a product of Nedekha's revised PhD thesis from the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, United Kingdom, completed and successfully defended before Prof. Louise Lawrence (University of Exeter) and Prof. Edward Adams (King's College London) on 16 June 2020 in the School of Education and Humanities. Professor Philip Esler, Chair of New Testament in the Department of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics, supervised the thesis. The original thesis title was Luke's Gospel and Greco-Roman Panegyrics: The Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20-49) in its Social Context. The present book combines the original thesis's revision and new materials and insights that have risen from my further research in Luke's Gospel. Revising the significant aspects of the thesis and the additional chapter was meant to make the study accessible to a broader audience. The book presents a new reading of the Sermon on the Plain from the perspective of Greco-Roman panegyrics. This reading is against the background of the synoptic approach to Luke 6: 20-49 that has historically relegated it to an appendix to Matthew's Sermon on the Mount. The book's central argument is that the best way to interpret the Sermon is to read it as a Greco-Roman panegyric, whose function was the integration of new members and the inculcation of commonly held values. The early Christian communities comprised individuals from diverse social backgrounds. Sustaining such fictive communities required a new conception of social relations beyond the conventional Greco-Roman Romans based on kinship and reciprocity. The book demonstrates how underneath the Sermon's makarisms and woes and their juxtaposition of poverty and riches (vv. 20-26) and exhortation (vv. 27-49) is Luke's attempt to construct a new social-economic identity of Christ-followers. The Sermon achieves this aim by supplanting those values deemed honourable and shameful by the dominant culture with a new set of values adopted from the status of destitution. The adoption of the values associated with destitution for both the rich and poor would result in their common dependence, not on material wealth but on the Lord for their daily provisions. In turn, common reliance on the Lord would allow for the camaraderie and koinonia between the rich and the poor among the first-century Christ-followers. This socio-economic motif is replicated throughout the Third Gospel and typifies Luke's representation of salvation as a holistic phenomenon. The author is a lecturer in Biblical Studies at the University of Malawi. He has a PhD in New Testament Studies from the University of Gloucestershire in England and an MTh in Biblical Studies from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He currently holds Alexander von Humboldt's George Forster Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Bamberg, Germany. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria Department of New Testament and Other Related Literature. Beyond that, Louis is also an ordained minister in the Africa Evangelical Church in Malawi.

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Section: The Greco-roman Panegyric: Speeches Of Praise and Blamementioning

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Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel : The Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20-49) and Greco-Roman Panegyrics

Ndekha

2023

Bible in Africa Studies

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Évangile et Récit La narration evangélique en Marc

Delorme¹

1997

New Test. Stud.

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2 'Discours' ne veut pas dire ici expose 1 oratoire devant un groupe de personnes, ni deVeloppement me'thodique d'un sujet, et ne s'oppose ni a 're'eit' ni a 'texte e'erit' (il y a des textes oraux). Le 'discours' n'est pas une simple suite de phrases, mais une totality ordonne'e qui forme une unite 1 globale de signification. II implique une operation d'articulation de ses e'le'ments et marque par et pour cette operation la place d'un sujet humain parlant. La distinction des types de discours ne recouvre pas celle des formes litteYaires ou des modes de communication, mais reclame l'e'tude des processus de production et d'interpre'tation du sens (i.e. une s6miotique de la signification).

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Genre and Point of View in Luke's Gospel

Frein

2008

Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture

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This study examines how the relationships between Luke's Gospel and other extant literary works shape the Gospel's narrative point of view. It discusses and evaluates the major proposals for identifying the genre of Luke-Acts and shows that none of the proposed genres alone can account for the all the major literary characteristics of the Gospel. The second section considers how the genre characteristics of Gospel, Hellenistic historical/biographical narrative, and biblical narrative each convey elements of the ideological, spatial/temporal and psychological aspects of point of view of Luke's Gospel.Brigid Curtin Frein, Ph.D. (St. Louis University) has published several scholarly articles on narrative approaches to the Gospels including "Fundamentalism and Narrative Criticism of the Gospels," (BTB vol 22). She is an Associate Professor in the

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Genre and the GospelsWhat Are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography. Richard A. Burridge

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Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel : The Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20-49) and Greco-Roman Panegyrics

Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel : The Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20-49) and Greco-Roman Panegyrics

Évangile et Récit La narration evangélique en Marc

Genre and Point of View in Luke's Gospel

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