Title
Direct engagement of the reader in Matthew's discourses: Rhetorical techniques and scholarly consensus
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Matthew's five great discourses move from addressing the story's audience to direct engagement with the reader. The first section of the paper demonstrates that this rhetorical function of the discourses has found widespread agreement among scholars employing such diverse methodologies as redaction, narrative, rhetorical, feminist, and reader-response criticisms, as well as structuralism and post-structuralism. The paper's second section analyzes the means by which Matthew's reader is more directly addressed in the discourses than in the narrative portions of the Gospel. The rhetorical devices explored include plot devices in the narrative surrounding the discourses; discourse structural devices; and linguistic, topical, and generic techniques used within the discourses. © 2005 Cambridge University Press.
Department(s)
Seminary
Publication Title
New Testament Studies
Volume
51
Issue
1
First Page
19
Last Page
35
Publication Date
12-1-2005
DOI
10.1017/S0028688505000020
ISSN
00286885
Recommended Citation
Brown, Jeannine K., "Direct engagement of the reader in Matthew's discourses: Rhetorical techniques and scholarly consensus" (2005). Seminary Faculty Publications. 9.
https://spark.bethel.edu/seminary-faculty/9