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Semeia 64: The Rhetoric of Pronouncement is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

this information is strictly necessary for Jesus’ final pronouncement.1 This expansion of narrative detail has a function in the rhetoric of the story. Attention is directed to Zacchaeus as an individual, who begins to stand out as a subject of interest in his own right. Those who become interested in Zacchaeus as an individual will be interested in what happens to him. When he seeks for something, readers are likely to become interested in whether he will find what he seeks and even hope that he
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