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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789785603321

Autore

Winton Alan P.

Titolo

The proverbs of Jesus : issues of history and rhetoric / / Alan P. Winton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield : , : JSOT Press, , [1990]

©1990

ISBN

1-283-20025-2

9786613200259

0-567-51707-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; ; 35

Library of New Testament studies

Disciplina

232.954

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations and Symbols; Introduction; Chapter 1; ASPECTS OF WISDOM IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS; Chapter 2; CLASSIFYING AND ANALYZING PROVERBIAL SAYINGS; Chapter 3; ISSUES IN THE MODERN INTERPRETATION OF SYNOPTIC PROVERBIAL WISDOM; Chapter 4; PROBLEMS OF HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION: WISDOM, ESCHATOLOGY AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD; Chapter 5; THE FUNCTIONS/RHETORIC OF THE PROVERBIAL SAYING IN THE SYNOPTIC LITERATURE; Chapter 6; WISDOM OF THE KINGDOM: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PROVERBIAL WISDOM IN THE SYNOPTICS; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Biblical and Extra-Biblical References

Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

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