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  3. The Voice of Jesus in the Social Rhetoric of James
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      13 January 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511488184
      9780521660693
      9780521020671
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488184
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 266 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.364kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion
      Series:
      Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (106)
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion
    Series:
    Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (106)
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    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.

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