The Other Feeding
Matt 15:32-39
james.cuenod@my.wheaton.edu
Reading the
Feedings Together
The repetition of a similar episode is not merely an additional episode. It has a powerful rhetorical effect in which anticipation and retrospection and repetition with variation are involved. There is a complex texture of interlocking echoes forcing the implied reader to read one episode in the light of the other.
Janice Capel Anderson, Matthew’s Narrative Web:
Over, and Over, and over Again
Place in Matthew
Matt 13:53 - 16:12
What Do We Learn from the Chiasm
- Death & Resurrection
- Faith & the Disciples' Misapprehension
- Jesus' Teaching in contrast to the Pharisees'
(Vertically)
How the Feedings Work Together
(Horizontally)
- Structure
- The Lord's Supper and the Eschatological Banquet
- What Comes From the Mouth
- Faith and Misapprehension
james.cuenod@my.wheaton.edu
The Other Feeding (Matt 15:32-39)
By James Cuénod
The Other Feeding (Matt 15:32-39)
Structural argument for Matthew 13-16 and how structure contributes to the understanding the meaning of the second feeding narrative
