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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...

The fact that Zacchaeus is rich is important to the plot, which deals with the question left dangling by 18:18–27: whether and how a rich man can be saved. The possible negative effect of Zacchaeus’s riches, in light of previous descriptions of rich men in Luke, is balanced by strong indications of Zacchaeus’s eagerness to see Jesus and responsiveness to him. When the crowd prevents him from seeing Jesus, he runs ahead (rather than walking) and climbs into a tree (probably an undignified thing for
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