Summary of Audience and Mnemonics of the Sermon on the Mount
Charles (Chuck) L Manto2014, Scholars Forum of Network of Biblical Storytellers
This paper presents the audience of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 as the crowd with the disciples observing Jesus providing his promised "fishing lessons". This paper outlines some of the mnemonics and rhetorical devices used in a persuasion and teaching program designed to be memorized and taught. This paper focuses on the immediate context of the range of conflicts providing background to the request for the crowds (not just the disciples) to pray for their worst enemies (persecutors) and all those in lesser conflicts. This was presented to the Scholars Forum of the Network of Biblical Storytellers August 5, 2014. A 25 minute interaction session followed led by Dr. Phil Ruge-Jones and Dr. Tom Boomershine.
