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...
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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. Fresh insights into its oration therefore serve to challenge the source problem in a new way. The religious and philosophical settings of this most well-known of Christ's preachings are clarified by its parables and rhetoric; and the sermon's Jewish background has often been investigated. While the author continues with that particular task, he simultaneously affords more emphasis to the parallels in (Greek) Hellenistic literature. The combining of all these factors leads to a clearer comprehension of the Sermon on the Mount's philosophy of life and provides a better understanding of this classical text.
""Cover""; ""Preface""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: Enigmas of the Sermon on the Mount and Ways to Solve Them""; ""1.1 Parables in the Sermon on the Mount""; ""1.1.1 A Neglected Feature in New Testament Scholarship""; ""1.1.2 Parables in Recent Research""; ""1.1.2.1 Categories and Their Relation to Jewish משלים and Hellenistic Rhetoric""; ""1.1.2.1.1 The So-Called Marburg School and Its Critics""; ""1.1.2.2 Jülicher and the Recent Discussion on Metaphors/Metaphorical Language""
""1.1.2.2.1 Tropes and Other Figures of Speech in the More Basic Rhetorical Argumentation""""1.1.2.3 The Parables as Argumentation and the Tertium Comparationis""; ""1.1.2.3.1 The Path between One-Point Approach and Multiple Meaning""; ""1.1.2.3.2 Two Types of Allegorical Interpretation""; ""1.1.2.4 The Parable and the Frame""; ""1.1.2.5 Sociological Approaches""; ""1.1.3 Parables Compared with Other Forms of Sayings in the Sermon on the Mount""; ""1.1.3.1 Focus on Aphorisms, Wisdom Exhortations ("Mahnworte") and Larger Units""; ""1.2 Rhetoric in the Sermon on the Mount""
""1.2.1 Genre of the Sermon on the Mount""""1.2.2 The Composition of the Sermon on the Mount""; ""1.2.2.1 Composition according to Jewish-Christian Patterns""; ""1.2.2.2 Composition according to Themes, Key-Texts and Literary Skills ""; ""1.2.2.3 Symmetric and Chiastic Structure of the Composition""; ""1.2.3 The Sermon on the Mount as Rhetorical Composition and as Deliberative Speech""; ""1.2.3.1 Rhetoric and the Audience""; ""1.3 Parables and the Sources of the Sermon on the Mount""; ""1.3.1 An "Inaugural Discourse" as Pre-Text?""
""1.3.1.1 Parables and the Content of the Inaugural Speech in Q: Mark and the Gospel of Thomas as Comparison""""1.3.2 Reconstruction Possible?""; ""1.3.3 Open Questions and Criteria for the Evaluation""; ""1.4 Parables and the Question of Wisdom versus Eschatology""; ""Chapter 2: Rhetoric and Metaphorical Language in the Exordium""; ""2.1 Rhetoric in the Exordium""; ""2.1.1 The Function and Meaning of the μακάριος-Sentences""; ""2.2 Rhetoric in Matthew's Additions""; ""2.2.1 The Three (Four) Additions in the Protasis""; ""2.2.1.1 Matt 5,8: "Clean in Heart" οἱ καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ)""
""2.2.1.2 Matt 5,6: "Hungry and Thirsty for Righteousness"""""2.2.1.3 Matt 5,3: "Poor in the Spirit" (οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι)""; ""2.2.1.3.1 Matthew Has Corrupted the Original Meaning""; ""2.2.1.3.2 Matthew Gives the Right Interpretation""; ""2.2.1.3.3 Matthew Makes the Meaning More Metaphorically Open""; ""2.2.1.3.4 The Meaning of "Poor"""; ""2.2.1.3.5 The Meaning of Spirit and the Use of the Dative""; ""2.2.1.3.6 Traditions behind the Expression""; ""2.2.2 The Three (Five) Additions in the Apodosis""; ""2.2.2.1 Matt 5,5: "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth" (κληρονομήσουσιν τὴν γῆν)""
""2.2.2.2 Matt 5,9: "The Peacemakers Shall Be Called Sons of God" (υἱοὶ θεοῦ κληθήσονται)""
