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1.2.2 Prouncement Stories
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Prouncement Stories 
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1.2.2.1 Research Updates

1.2.2.2 General Treatments

Alsup, John E. "Type, Place, and Function of the Pronouncement Story in Plutarch's Moralia." Semeia 20 (1981): 15-27.

Alsup, John E. "Toward A Pronouncement Story Typology in Plutarch's 'Moralia'." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 14 (1978): 1-10.

Avery-Peck, Alan J. "Classifying Early Rabbinic Pronouncement Stories." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 22 (1983): 223-44.

Avery-Peck, John. "Rhetorical Argumentation in Early Rabbinic Pronouncement Stories." Semeia 64 (1993): 49-71.

Breech, Earl "Stimulus-Response and Declaratory, Pronouncement  Stories in Philostratus." Society of Biblical Literature  Seminar Papers 11 (1977): 257-71.

Borg, Marcus J. Conflict, Holiness & Politics in the Teachings of Jesus. Vol. 5, Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984.

Brodie, Thomas Louis.  "Greco-Roman Imitation of Tests as a Partial Guide to Luke's Use of Sources."  In Luke-Acts: New Perspectives from the Society of Biblical Literature Seminar, ed. Charles H. Talbert, 17-46.  New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co., 1984.

Bultmann, Rudolf.  "The Study of the Synoptic Gospels."  In Form Criticism: A New Method of New Testament Research. Translated by Frederick C. Grant, 7-78.  New York: Willet, Clark and Co., 1934.

Bultmann, Rudolf.  The History of the Synoptic Tradition.  Revised ed. Translated by John Marsh.  New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.

Crossan, John Dominic. In Fragments: The Aphorisms of Jesus. San  Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983.

Dean-Otting, Miriam, and Vernon K. Robbins. "Biblical Sources for Pronouncement Stories in the Gospels." Semeia 64 (1993): 95-115.

Dibelius, Martin.  From Tradition to Gospel.  2nd revised ed.  Translated by Bertram Lee Woolf.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.

Dibelius, Martin. Die Formgeschichte des Evangelium. 3d. Ed. Edited by Günter Bornkamm. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1959.

Dibelius, Martin. Gospel Criticism and Christology. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1935.

Dibelius, Martin. A Fresh Approach to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature.  Translated by W. A. Brown and B. L. Woolf.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.

Gemoll, Wilhelm. Das Apophthegma: Literarhistorische Studien.Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky A. G., 1924.

Greenspoon, Leonard. "The Pronouncement Story in Philo and  Josephus." Semeia 20 (1981): 73-80.

Hock, Ronald F. "Comments on the Article of Vernon K. Robbins." Semeia 29 (1983): 97-101.

Hoch, Ronald F., and Edward O’Neil. The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric. Vol. 1, The Progymnasmata. Texts and Translations, no. 27. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.

Karris, Robert J. Luke: Artist and Theologian. New York: Paulist Press, 1985.

Lausberg, Heinrich. Handbuch der literarischen Rhetorik. 2 ed.  2 Vols. München: May Hueber, 1973.

Louw, Johannes.  "A Semiotic Approach to Discourse Analysis with Reference to Translation Theory."  The Bible Translator 36, no. 1 (January 1985): 101-107.

Mack, Burton L. and Vernon K. Robbins. Patterns of Persuation  in the Gospels. Sonoma, CA: Polebridge Press, 1984.

Mack, Burton L. and Vernon K. Robbins. "Conclusion." In Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels. Edited Burton L. Mack and Vernon K. Robbins. Sonoma, CA.: Polebridge Press, 1989.

Malina, Bruce J. and Jerome H. Neyrey. "Conflict in Luke-Acts: Labelling and Deviance Theory." In The Social World of Luke- Acts: Models for Interpretation. Edited by Jerome H. Neyrey. Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson, 1991.

Montgomery, Robert M. and W. Richard Stegner. Auxiliary Studies in the Bible Forms in the Gospels: I The Pronouncement Story. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970.

Nassen, Paula J. "The Pronouncement Story in Diogenes Laertius'  Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: A New  Classification." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar  Papers 14 (1978): 11-19.

Nassen, Paula J.  "Typology of Pronouncement Stories in Diogenes  Laertius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers."  Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 11 (1977):  273-78.

Neyrey, Jerome H. ed. The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models For Interpretation. Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991.

Parton, Gary C.  "The Pronouncement Story in Tannaitic Literature: A Review of Bultmann's Theory."  Semeia 20 (1981): 81-100.

Perkins, Pheme. "Pronouncement Stories in the Gospel of Thomas." Semeia 20 (1981): 121-32.

Plümacher, Eckhard.  Lukas als hellenistischer Schriftseller. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1972.

Porton, Gary G. "The Pronouncement Story in Tannaitic Literature:  A Review of Bultmann's Theory." Semeia 20 (1981): 81-99.

Poulos, Paula Nassen. "Form and Function of the Pronouncement  Story in Diogenes Laertius' Lives." Semeia 20 (1981): 53-63.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Chreia & Pronouncement Story in Synoptic Studies." In Patterns of Persuasion In the Gospels. Edited Burton L. Mack and Vernon K. Robbins. Sonoma, CA.: Polebridge Press, 1989.

Robbins, Vernon K. "A Rhetorical Typology for Classifying and Analyzing Pronouncement Stories." In Society of Biblical Literature 1984 Seminar Papers. Edited by Kent Harold Richards, 93-122. Chico, CA.: Scholars Press, 1984.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Pronouncement Stories from a Rhetorical Perspective." Forum 4 No. 2 (June: 1988): 3-32.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Pronouncement Stories and Jesus' Blessing of Children: A Rhetorical Approach." In Society of Biblical Literature 1982 Seminar Papers. Edited by Kent Harold Richards, 407-430. Chico, CA.: Scholars Press, 1982.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Pronouncement Stories and Jesus' Blessing of the Children: A Rhetorical Approach." Semeia 29 (1983): 43-73.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Classifying Pronouncement Stories in Plutarch's Parallel Lives." Semeia 20 (1981): 29-51.

Robbins, Vernon K.  “The Chreia.” In Greco-Roman Literature and the New Testament: Selected Forms and Genres, ed. David E. Aune. Society of Biblical Literature Sources for Biblical Study, ed. Bernard Brandon Scott, no. 21. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.

Robbins, Vernon K.  “Chreia and Pronouncement Story in Synoptic Studies.” In Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels, ed. Burton Mack and Vernon Robbins, 1-30. Sonoma, Calif.: Polebridge Press, 1989.

Robbins, Vernon K.  “Apophthegm.” In The Anchor Bible Dictionary.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Classifying Pronouncement Stories in  Plutarch's Parallel Lives." Semeia 20 (1981): 29-52.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Pronouncement Stories in Plutarch's Lives of Alexander  and Julius Caesar." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 14 (1978): 21-38.

Robbins, Vernon K. "A Rhetorical Typology for Classifying and  Analyzing  Pronouncement Stories." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 23 (1984): 93-122.

Saller, Richard P. "The Use of Pronouncement Stories in  Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars." Society of Biblical  Literature Seminar Papers 21 (1982): 459-66.

Speight, R. Marston. "The Pronouncement Story in the Hadith  Literature of Islam." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar  Papers 21 (1982): 521-29.

Spencer, Richard A. "The Pronouncement Stories in Plutarch's  Moralia: A Typological Re-evaluation." Society of Biblical  Literature Semimar Papers 17 (1979): 223-32.

Streeter, Burnett Hillman.  The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1951.

Stroker, William D. "The Pronouncement Story in Early Christian  Apocryphal Literature." Society of Biblical Literature  Seminar Papers 14 (1978): 39-46.

Stroker, William, D. "Examples of Pronouncement Stories in Early Christian Apocryphal Literature." Semeia 20 (1981): 133-141.

Tannehill, Robert C.  "Introduction: The Pronouncement Story and Its Types."  Semeia 20 (1981): 1-14.

Tannehill, Robert C.  "Varieties of Synoptic Pronouncement Stories." Semeia 20 (1981): 101-120.

Tannehill, Robert C.  The Sword of His Mouth.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975.

Tannehill, Robert C.  "Attitudinal Shift in Synoptic Pronouncement Stories."  In Orientation by Disorientation: Studies in Literary Criticism and Biblical Literary Criticism, ed.  Richard A. Spencer, 183-98.  Pittsburg: The Pickwick Press, 1980.

Tannehill, Robert C.  "Synoptic Pronouncement Stories: Form and Function." In Society of Biblical Literature 1980 Seminar Papers, ed. Paul J. Achtemeier, 51-56.  Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1980.

Tannehill, Robert C. "Types and Functions of Apophthegms in the Synoptic Gospels."  In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, ed. Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, Band II. 25.1, 1792-1829.  Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1984.

Tannehill, Robert C. "Introduction: The Pronouncement Story and Its Types."  Semeia 20 (1981): 1-13.

Tannehill, Robert C. "Response to John Dominic Crossan and Vernon K. Robbins." Semeia 29 (1983): 103-107.

Tannehill, Robert C. "Synoptic Pronouncement Stories: Form and Function." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 19 (1980):  51-56.

Tannehill, Robert C. "Tension in Synoptic Sayings and Stories." Interpretation 34 (1980): 138-50.

Tannehill, Robert C. "Varieties of Synoptic Pronouncement Stories." Semeia  20 (1981): 101-19.

Scott, Bernard Brandon. "The Rules of the Game: A Response to  Daniel Patte." Semeia 29 (1983): 117-24.

Silberman, Lou H. "Schoolboys and Storytellers: Some Comments on  Aphorisms and Chriae." Semeia 29 (1983): 109-15.

Taylor, Vincent.  The Formation of the Gospel Tradition.  London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1933.

VanderKam, James C. "Typological Analysis of Intertestamental  Pronouncement Stories." Society of Biblical Literature  Seminar Papers 11 (1977): 279-84.

VanderKam, James C. "Intertestamental Pronouncement Stories." Semeia 20 (1981): 65-71.

Vanderkam, James C. "Intertestamental Pronouncement Stories." Semeia 20  (1981): 65-72.
 
 

1.2.2.3 Prouncement Stories in the Gospels

Bartchy, S. S. “Table Fellowship.” In Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. Joel B. Green, Scot McKnight, and I. Howard Marshall, 796-800. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992.

Bevan, T. W.  "The Four Anointings."  The Expository Times 39 (1927-28): 137-39.

Bianchi, Ugo. "The Religio-historical Relevance of Luke 20:34-36." In Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions: Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of his 65th. Birthday. Edited by R. Van Den Broek and M. J. Vermaseren. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981.

Braumann, Georg.  "Die Schuldner und die Sünderin Luk. VII. 36-50."  New Testament Studies 10, no. 4 (July 1964): 487-93.

Brodie, Thomas L.  "Luke 7, 36-50 as an Internalization of 2 Kings 4, 1-37: A Study in Luke's Use of Rhetorical Imitation."  Biblica 64, no 4 (1983): 457-85.

Dewey, Arthur J. "A Prophetic Pronouncement: Q 12:42-46." Forum 5  (June 1989): 99-108.

Drexler, Hans.  "Die grosse Sünderin Lucas 7 36-50." Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 59, no. 3/4 (1968): 159-73.

Elliott, J. K.  "The Anointing of Jesus."  The Expository Times 85, no. 4 (January 1974): 105-107.

Feuillet, A. “Les deux onctions faites sur Jésus, et Marie-Madeleine.” Revue thomiste 75 (1975): 357-94.

Holst, Robert.  "The One Anointing of Jesus: Another Application of the Form-Critical Method."  Journal of Biblical Literature 95, no. 3 (September 1976): 435-46.

Kilgallen, John J. "The Sadducees and Resurrection from the Dead: Luke 20:27-40." Biblica 67 (1986): 478-495.

Legault, Andre.  "An Application of the Form-Critique Method to the Anointings in Galilee (Lk 7, 36-50) and Bethany (Mt 26, 6-13; Mk 14, 3-9; Jn 12, 1-8)."  The Catholic Bible Quarterly 16, no. 2 (April 154): 131-45.

Mack, Burton L. “The Anointing of Jesus: Elaboration within a Chreia.” In Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels, ed. Burton L. Mack and Vernon K. Robbins, 85-106. Sonoma, Calif.: Polebridge Press, 1989.

Patte, Daniel. "Jesus' Pronouncement About Entering the Kingdom Like a Child: A Structural Exegesis." Semeia 29 (1983): 3-42.

Reedy, Charles J. "Rhetorical Concerns and Argumentative  Techniques in Matthean Pronouncement Stories." Society of  Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 22 (1983): 219-22.

Robbins, Vernon K. "The Crucifixion and the Speech of Jesus." Forum 4 (March): 33-46.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Pronouncement Stories and Jesus' Blessing of Children." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 21  (1982): 407-30.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Pronouncement Stories from a Rhetorical Perspective." Forum 4 (June 1988): 3-32.

Robbins, Vernon K. "Pronouncement Stories and Jesus' Blessing of the Children: A Rhetorical Approach." Semeia 29 (1983): 43-74.  Revised from Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers  1982.

Schwankl, Otto. Die Sadduzäerfrage (Mk. 12:18-27 parr): Eine exegetisch-theologische Studie zur Auferstehungserwartung. Frankfurt: Alhenäum, 1987.

Thießen, Gerd and Philipp Vielhauer. Rudolf Bultmann Die Geschichte der synoptichen Tradition: Ergänzunsheft. 4th. Edition. Göttingen: Vanden Hoeck and Ruprecht, 1971.

Tyson, Joseph B. "Conflict as a Literary Theme in the Gospel of Luke." In New Synoptic Studies: The Cambridge Gospel Conference and Beyond. Edited by William R. Farmer. Macon, GA.: Mercer University Press, 1983.

Wilkens, Ulrich.  "Vergebung für die Sünderin (Lk 7, 36-50)."  In Orientierung an Jesus: Zur Theologie der Synoptiker.  Für Josef Schmid, eds. Paul Hoffman, Norbert Brox, and Wilhelm Pesch, 394-424.  Freiburg: Herder, 1973.

Wood, H. G. “The Use of ajgapavw in Luke 8:42,47.” Expository Times 66 (1954): 318-20.
 


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