"An excellent model of one way literary and rhetorical criticisms can be combined in exegetical work." Religious Studies Review

• 1. Introduction: how to read Luke 14?; 2. Assumptions and preliminary reading; 3. Jesus as a healer of craving desire (14:1–6); 4. Uncommon 'symposium rules' (14:7–11, 12–14); 5. The big dinner (14:15–24): aspects of Lukan performance; 6. The conversion of a wealthy householder; 7. Forms, genres and composition; 8. Composition as argumentation: the rhetoric of Luke 14; 9. Toward closure (and openings).

"An excellent model of one way literary and rhetorical criticisms can be combined in exegetical work." Religious Studies Review

• 1. Introduction: how to read Luke 14?; 2. Assumptions and preliminary reading; 3. Jesus as a healer of craving desire (14:1–6); 4. Uncommon 'symposium rules' (14:7–11, 12–14); 5. The big dinner (14:15–24): aspects of Lukan performance; 6. The conversion of a wealthy householder; 7. Forms, genres and composition; 8. Composition as argumentation: the rhetoric of Luke 14; 9. Toward closure (and openings).