E ele sera chamado pelo nome de Emanuel : o narrador e Jesus Cristo no evangelho de Mateus / And they will call him Immanuel : the narrator and Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew

AUTOR(ES)

João Cesario Leonel Ferreira

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The main goal of this thesis is the study of the narrator of the Gospel of Matthew and its relationship with its main character ? Jesus Christ. In the very heart of the dissertation is the observation that the narrator works his text in order to produce in the readers the consciousness that the narrative has to do with the living Jesus Christ, who plays the role of guiding the understanding the text, and not only with a mere character of a past history. To do so, the narrator put himself in a secondary place, and develops some mechanisms so that the main character may occupy a prominent role. The downsizing of the narrator is not a textual frailty. Rather, it produces an opening of the text to the reader. Thus, these strategies aim to attract the reader to participate in the plot. In order to reach these conclusions, the dissertation discusses several contemporary ways the Gospel of Matthew is interpreted at this moment. It also defines the literary genre of the Gospel as a Greek-Roman biography. Besides, it identifies the narrator, its narrative focus and how he organizes the gospel in discursive and narrative blocks from its main source, viz., the Gospel of Mark. As an ending, the dissertation explains the literary strategies through an exhaustive comparison between the texts of Matthew and Mark, giving evidence of how they point to specific rhetoric purposes the narrator wish to generate in the readers. There was an open channel of discussion with Bible scholars, sometimes agreeing, sometimes disagreeing with them. The main point of disagreement was related to the statement that the Gospel has a catechetical purpose and is deprived of brilliance. Arguing against this, it is stated that the Gospel of Matthew has narrative strategies that make it extremely persuasive to its readers. It is quite clear that the disrespect of the elements of analysis described in the dissertation produces harmful consequences to the interpretation of the biblical text

ASSUNTO(S)

readers leitores literary genres narração (retorica) narration (rhetoric) biblia. n.t. mateus biblia. n. t. evangelhos bible. n. t. gospels generos literarios bible. n. t. matthew

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