The Markan Community, Myth or Maze? Bauckham's The Gospel for All Christians Revisited

Bird, Michael F.

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“…Before the genre of encomium was developed as an epideictic discipline, praise had always been part of the Greco-Roman world. 8 As Hilary Mackie A. Duranti.…”

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

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“…He argues that the good news to the destitute summarises Jesus' message in Luke. 8 Although Green does not recognise the panegyric dimensions of the Sermon, he 7 The original Latin equivalent of ἀρετή (excellence) was virtus (virtue), whose corresponding words gloria, dignitas, and honour were generally understood in terms of good service to the government, army and religion. It was the quality to contribute to public eudemonism (happiness).…”

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“…Because of its ability to explain group behaviour in various contexts, social identity theory has been adopted in several human sciences, including biblical studies. 8 It helps to shed light on group processes in the communities where the biblical texts originated, and which may have influenced their contents.…”

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“…Jesus' ability to correct social wrongs becomes manifest across the Gospel. In his feeding of the multitudes (Lk 9:12-17), healings and exorcisms (5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(17)(18)(19), and in the unconditional acceptance of tax collectors (Lk 5:27-23; 19:1-10) and sinners (Lk 7:36-50) Jesus announced the realisation of the blessedness of the poor, hungry and the ostracised referred to in the Sermon. The use of the adverb νῦν (now) concerning those who hunger, mourn, are filled, and laugh (Lk 6:21, 25) demonstrates Jesus' first-hand knowledge of the audience's present situation, both rich and poor.…”

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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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“…Before the genre of encomium was developed as an epideictic discipline, praise had always been part of the Greco-Roman world. 8 As Hilary Mackie A. Duranti.…”

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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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“…1000Esler, 1998Sim, 2001: 3-27;Mitchell, 2005Mitchell, : 36-79. 1001 See Bird, 2006: 474-486, Vine, 2014Smith, 2011. produced them. Although the problems of the local audience thesis has, over the years, been raised by a number of scholars such as E.A.…”

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"Luke’s Gospel and Greco-Roman Panegyrics: The Sermon on the Plain (LK 6:20-49) in its Social Context"

Ndekha

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The dissertation argues that the Sermon on the Plain is best interpreted from the perspective of the Greco-Roman paradigm of praise and blame. In the first chapter, the dissertation outlines the historical challenges in the interpretation of the Sermon and proposes panegyric praise and blame as a plausible framework for its reading. In the second chapter, the thesis argues that Greco-Roman makarisms and woes have their context in praise and blame. The (established) affinities between Greco-Roman and Lucan makarisms and woes, therefore, provide a basis for interpreting the latter from the perspective of praise and blame. The third chapter takes up the analysis of the function of praise and blame in the Greco-Roman context. It argues that in the Greco-Roman world, panegyrics served, inter alia, in the integration of victors and the re-enforcement of community values. These core functions provide the methodological framework for the interpretation of the Sermon. In chapter 4 the thesis demonstrates how the different layers of communication in the Sermon, its conception of community and communion, and the presentation of riches and poverty reflect its Greco-Roman context. At the heart of the discussion is the question of Greco-Roman conception of power and powerlessness (embedded in poverty and riches) which had implications for identity and social interactions between the rich and poor in the Lucan churches. Therefore, in the exegesis of the Sermon in chapter 5, the study identifies the integration of catechumens and the re-enforcement of the value of κοινωνία as the major thrust of the Sermon. In chapter 6 the dissertation traces the paradigm of praise and blame across the Gospel. It argues that the praise of God and Jesus' magnanimity on the one hand, and Jesus' praise and blame of generosity and stinginess, respectively, on the other, demonstrates the rhetorical role of the praise and blame in the Gospel. Finally, since a panegyric reading of the Sermon implies a community reading of the text, such an approach has implications on the Gospel community debate. Therefore, in chapter 7, using old and new evidence from both primary and secondary sources, the dissertation argues for the local audience thesis as the most plausible reading of the Gospels.

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The Twelve and the Weaponry of Kingship

Wenkel

2018

The Kingship of the Twelve Apostles in Luke-Acts

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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

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