Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14

Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The, January, 1997 by Robert F O'Toole

WILLI BRAUN, Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14 (SNTSMS 85; Cambridge/ New York/Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Pp. xii 221. $49.95.

This book is W Braun's doctoral dissertation accepted by the University of Toronto in 1993. In chap. I B. reflects on the correct interpretation of the data in Luke 14:1-24 and calls for a "comprehensive, coherent and historically plausible proposal." In chap. 2 he outlines several standard assumptions about Luke as an author and provides an initial reading of Luke 14:1-24.

In chaps. 3-6 B. contends that a historical understanding of this pericope depends on appreciating the cultural values, common social and economic realities, and popular moral views and traditions of first-century Mediterranean peoples. In fact,...

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