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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...

and interpret it as a whole. The latter statement reminds readers of the former and of the intervening instances of Jesus’ ministry to the outcasts in Luke. The reference to “the lost” in 19:10 especially recalls Luke 15, where a similar situation arose (critics grumbling at Jesus’ association with toll collectors and sinners) and Jesus responded with parables about the finding of the lost. Thus the general statement about Jesus’ mission in 19:10 functions as a summary of the previous narrative.
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