The Rhetoric of Response: A Classical Rhetorical Reading of Hebrews 10:32-12:13

ISBN-13: 9780567027429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 384 str.

Lee Maxey

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The Rhetoric of Response is an interpretation of Hebrews 10:32-12:13 from the perspective of classical rhetorical compositional theory. It argues that this unit in Hebrews is deliberative rhetoric advancing a set of four responses to a significant problem facing the community to who Hebrews is addressed, a group of late first century CE Roman Christians. The responses - which ultimately aim to inspire members to continue in the faith of the community and to accept and weather sufferings occasioned by their faith - are accommodated by the following rhetorical structure, which conforms to the standard classical forensic/deliberative speech outline: (1) Exordium (10:32-34); (2) Confimatio (11:1-40); and (3) Concluiso (12:1-13).

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Abbreviations Prologue Part One: The Theoretical Framework Chapter One: Classical Rhetorical Compositinal Theory and Practice I. Introduction II. Generic Considerations III. The Discursive and Structural Configuration of Forensic and Deliberative Rhetoric IV. The Discursive Design and Structural Configuration of Epideictic Rhetoric Part Two: The Classical Rhetorical Reading of Hebrews 10:32-12:13 Introduction Chapter Two: The First Response and the Start of the Second: The Exordium of Hebrews 10:32-39 I. Rhetorical Preliminaries II. The First Response: The Narration of Hebrews 10:32-34 III. The Second Response (Part One) and Material for the Third: The Paraenesis of 10:35A and the Exposition of 10:35B-39 IV. Resume Chapter Three: The Second Response Continued: The Confirmation of Hebrews 11:1-40 I. Rhetorical Preliminaries II. The Second Response (Part Two): The Interpretation of The Confirmation of Hebrews III. Resume Chapter Four: The Final Responses: The Conclusion of Hebrews 12:1-13 I. Rhetorical Preliminaries II. The Third Response: The Paraenesis of Hebrews 12:1-3 III. The Final Response: The Ergasia of Hebrews 12:4-13 IV. Resume Epilogue Appendices Appendix One: Stasis Theory Appendix Two: Corax and the Structure of the Deliberative Address Select Bibliography