By Dorothy Jean Weaver
This publication deals a particular technique to the interpretative problems surrounding Matthew's Missionary Discourse. whereas the discourse right lies inside a story framework designating the environment of its supply, the defined project doesn't in any respect issues trust the distinctive atmosphere. Weaver shifts realization from historical-critical to literary-critical matters. instead of targeting the old setting(s) of the disciples' mission(s), she analyses the function of Mt. 9.35-11.1 inside of its literary surroundings within the Gospel and assesses the impression of this article at the reader of the Gospel.
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In addition, whenever there is evidence of'deeper' vision, that vision always relates in some way to Jesus. As a result, Matthew's narrator uses depth of vision above all as a technique to highlight Jesus. 34 reflects variation. While the greatest proportion of the narrator's discourse has as its focalizer the omnipresent narrator himself, there are also moments when the focalizer becomes one of the characters in the story. Further, whenever a character speaks, he/she becomes the focalizer for the duration of his/her speech.
34 is there any hint that either Jesus or the narrator has 'inside' information concerning the motives which lie behind God's actions. 36 Nor does the narrator have access to the inner workings of Satan's mind. All that the implied reader learns about Satan is what he doesY Thus the omniscience of Matthew's narrator is truly unlimited only with regard to the 'human' characters of the story. A fourth factor which helps to establish the diegetic authority of a narrator is what Lanser refers to as the narrator's 'referential claim' ,38 that claim which the narrator himself makes as to the type of story being narrated.
34 is that of a temporal 'zoom lens'. 34). The second factor which relates to temporal point of view within a narrative is the relationship between the time at which the narrating takes place and the time at which the events of the story themselves occur. gn. The two main verb tenses used within the narratoros-diScourse are the aorist and the imperfect, both tenses which establish a distinct time-gap between the moment of narration and the moment of the event itself. But the narrator also uses the historic present tense at a number of points throughout his discourse.