Sermon on the Mount and Sermon on the Plain from the viewpoint of rhetorical criticism

Abstract

The study focuses on rhetorical analysis of speeches of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke. It introduces methodological procedures and presuppositions.

Textual units are treated as a rhetorical units, composed in order to amplify some aspects of raw textual material.

Keywords

• rhetoric
• rhetorical
• sermon
• jesus
• speech
• speeches