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Is Luke's Rhetoric Hellenistic, Semitic or Both? The Last Supper as a Test Case

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Author

  • Tobias Hägerland

Editor

  • Roland Meynet
  • Jacek Oniszczuk

Summary, in English

Two approaches to the rhetorical analysis of Gospel texts are being compared in this essay: on the one hand, the use of the rhetorical categories of the Hellenistic Progymnasmata, and on the other, «Biblical and semitic rhetoric». It is argued that these two

approaches are not mutually exclusive, but complementary. The last supper in Luke 22,14-38 functions as a test case. An introduction offers some reasons in favour of the assumption that the Gospel of Luke draws on both types of rhetoric. Then, two recent rhetorical analyses of the account are presented: firstly, the essay author’s own analysis of the account as a chreia elaboration, and secondly, R. Meynet’s analysis of it from the perspective of biblical and semitic rhetoric. Points of agreement and disagreement between the two analyses are identified and discussed. Finally, some suggestions as to

how the two perspectives can complement each other are made.

Department/s

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

365-380

Publication/Series

Studi del terzo convegno RBS. International Studies on Biblical & Semitic Rhetoric

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Gregorian and Biblical Press

Topic

  • Religious Studies

Keywords

  • the Gospel according to Luke
  • biblical and Semitic rhetoric
  • Progymnasmata
  • chreia elaboration

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-88-7839-249-6