“The fruit of peace is sown in peace by those who make peace” (Jas 3:18). Socio-rhetorical Analysis of the Concept of Peace in the Letter of James

Dorota Katarzyna Muszytowska




Abstract

The subject of the article is the teaching on peace found in the Letter of James 3:18, which is investigated in the light of socio-rhetoric. In the first part, the innertexture of the maxim in 3:18 is examined: first its syntactic structure and interpretative possibilities, and then its location within the rhetorical argument of the letter, together with its semantics resulting from the context. In the second part, the article analyzes the intertexture of the maxim: first its relationship to other texts, and then echoes of  concepts of peace found both in the Old Testament and in Greek and Roman culture.

Keywords:

Letter of James 3, peace, righteousness, wisdom, social-rhetoric, inner texture, intertexture

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Published
2016-12-01


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Dorota Katarzyna Muszytowska  d.muszytowska@uksw.edu.pl

Dr Dorota Muszytowska, biblistka, od 2009 r. pracuje na Wydziale Nauk Humanistycznych Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, od 2011 r. kierownik Zakładu Literatury Biblijnej przy Katedrze Retoryki, Literatury Staropolskiej i Badań nad Biblią. Jej zainteresowania naukowe koncentrują się głównie wokół zagadnień retoryczności tekstów biblijnych, a w szczególności nowotestamentowej epistolografii.

d.muszytowska@uksw.edu.pl

dr Dorota Muszytowska

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych

UKSW

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01-815 Warszawa




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