The Sermon at the Mount includes many comparisons. during this e-book, the services of those comparisons are studied via the method referred to as comparative characterization. Characterization is the best way a personality is characterised in a story. Comparative characterization is the characterization of a personality utilizing comparisons. In comparative characterization, one other personality is used as a foil to carry out a attribute trait of a involved personality. Jesus characterised the correct disciple within the Sermon at the Mount with many descriptions and imperatives. To symbolize the correct disciple Jesus used many comparisons and highlighted the attribute gains that include the proper disciple.

The many comparisons utilized in the Sermon at the Mount are pointed out during this examine via comparative characterization. moreover, the teleological goal of the comparisons, that's to play as foil to the characterization of the best disciple, is pointed out and highlighted. therefore, this research identifies Jesus' characterization of the fitting disciple and his complicated portrayal of the perfect disciple with the numerous makes use of of comparisons within the descriptions and imperatives of Jesus within the Sermon at the Mount.

"Bennet Arren Lawrence makes use of literary, narrative, and comparative characterization equipment at their top in his research of the Sermon at the Mount. After constructing a deeper wisdom concerning the instructing of Jesus, he endeavors to foreground definitely the right disciple embedded in the narrative framework of the textual content. the writer explores a number of the noteworthy narrative facets akin to imperatival characterization, displaying and telling ideas, rhetorical underpinnings, and thesis and antithesis distinction. I hugely suggest this book."
--Johnson Thomaskutty, affiliate Professor of latest testomony, Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, India

Arren Bennet Lawrence acquired his PhD from Asia Graduate university of Theology, Manila, Philippines. He teaches New testomony in Hindustan Bible Institute and faculty, Chennai, India. He has written a publication referred to as Legalistic Nomism (2016). he's married to Joyce Ventura Lawrence. either one of them are missionaries to India for 8 years, they usually have a stunning daughter, Netanya Lawrence.