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Document Details : Title: Ancient Rhetoric as a Guide to Literary Dependence Subtitle: The Widow’s Mite (Mark 12,14-44 par. Luke 21,1-4) Author(s): DAMM, Alex Journal: Biblica Volume: 97 Issue: 2 Date: 2016 Pages: 222-243 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.97.2.3183483 Abstract : This essay applies conventions of ancient rhetoric to the analysis of the literary sequence of Mark and Luke’s Gospels. With an eye on basic and more advanced rhetorical handbooks, I outline two significant rhetorical conventions for improving upon literary sources: clarity (perspecuitas) and propriety (aptum). When we ask whether the evangelist Mark has applied these principles to the adaptation of Luke's Gospel (following the Griesbach Hypothesis), or whether Luke has applied these principles to the adaptation of Mark (following the Two-Document and Farrer Hypotheses) in the pericope of the Widow's Mite, we find that the latter scenario is more plausible. |
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