Rhetorics in the New Millennium

ISBN-13: 9780567349910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str.

James D. Hester; J. David Hester

Opis

This collection of essays contains contributions from scholars who are recognized as among the best practitioners of New Testament rhetorical criticism. Three of them describe general theories of rhetoric based on both classical and contemporary models. The remainder provide new readings based on special theories of rhetoric, some not typically used in rhetorical analysis of New Testament texts. All have two audiences in mind: those who have been engaged in rhetorical criticism and those who hope to learn more about how such criticism is done. Extensive notes, appendices, and a bibliography contribute to further understanding of the enterprise.The book is organized into three sections. The first is a collection of three essays that are primarily theoretical in nature. One is an essay by Wilhelm Wuellner that has never appeared in English.The second is a series of analyses done by scholars not only from New Testament, but also from classics, literary criticism, and communications. Each uses a different theoretical model to analyze a text.The third is a series of appendices that summarize for the reader information about the content of certain theoretical models of criticism. Finally, a bibliography listing a wide variety of rhetorical critical studies and reference works is included. (An index could be added once final pagination is settled.)

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Contributors 1. Rhetorics in and for a New Millennium James D. Hester [University of Redlands] Part One: Mapping New Rhetorics 2. The Rhetoric of Inquiry Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza [Harvard University] 3. Reading Scripture as/for Public Knowledge Gary D. Salyer [Fuller Theological Seminary] 4. The Pre-Christian Paul and Rhetoric Wilhelm Wuellner [Pacific School of Religion] Part Two: Rhetorical Readings: Re-Reading the Power of Persuasion 5. Rhetoric, Culture, and Ideology: Socio-Rhetorical Analysis in the Reading of New Testament Texts L. Gregory Bloomquist [St. Paul's University] 6. The Ironic Drama of Matthew 22:15-46 Lewis Leroy (Lee) Snyder [University of Nebraska] 7. Forged in Fire: A Study of the Generic Dynamics in the Acts of the Apostles Dale L. Sullivan [North Dakota State University] 8. Paul and the Rhetoric of Ignorance Greg Carey [Lancaster Theological Seminary] 9. Pseudonymity As Rhetoric: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Pauline Pseudepigrapha Frank W. Hughes 10. Word as Works: Philosophical Protreptic and the Epistle of James Carol Poster