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7 - Forms, genres and composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2009

Willi Braun
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Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Québec
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A brief reiteration of the principal points that arose in the examination of the discrete periods of the dinner episode should help us to approach another set of issues. These have have to do with the compositional plan and argumentative logic of the unit in its entirety. The scrutiny of the sub-units, loosely tethered to the poles of form, source and milieu analyses, allows several summary claims that raise the question of the design of the episode as a whole.

The importance of the forms

As to forms, the episode consists of heterogeneous speech types that in themselves are unremarkable; they are of the stuff common in the gospel literature, including the gospel of Luke. The episode begins with a chreia (14.1–6), proceeds through a line-up of sapiential sentences (14.8–10, 12–13), maxims (14.11, 14, 15) and a fictional story about a householder who invited guests (14.16–24), and concludes with an epilogion (14.24) that has a narrative function in the householder story but perhaps doubles as a rhetorical conclusion of the whole episode. All this merely states the obvious from the vantage point of a modest familiarity with textbook form criticism. And, for the reader whose percipience is guided primarily by, say, Bultmannian form criticism, neither the identification of the forms nor their sequence is of much significance for the composition of the whole episode.

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  • Forms, genres and composition
  • Willi Braun, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Québec
  • Book: Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14
  • Online publication: 28 August 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520303.007
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  • Willi Braun, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Québec
  • Book: Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14
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  • Forms, genres and composition
  • Willi Braun, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Québec
  • Book: Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14
  • Online publication: 28 August 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520303.007
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