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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Society for New Testament Studies Monograph ; v. 82 |
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Society for New Testament Studies Monograph
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction: The layout of this study and the approach behind it ; 1 Enthymematic semiosis in Paul ; 1.1 A semiotic perspective for the study of Pauline argument. Umberto Eco's 'typology of modes of signproduction'. ; 1.2 Pauline argument and the rhetorical dimension of his discourse. Two lines of approach: the classical and the 'new'. ; 1.3 Intentionality in Pauline rhetoric. Differing estimates and the assumptions they entail regarding Pauline persuasiveness |
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1.4 From the rhetorical to the sacred dimension. Coding levels in Paul. The role of the enthymeme. 1.5 Consequences of a semiological perspective. The crisis of rationality in Paul. ; 2 Varieties of enthymematic effect in Romans 1-4 ; 2.1 The character of the enthymeme. Identifying enthymemes. ; 2.2 The 'power of the gospel'. The enthymematic factor in Romans 1:16-17. Reconstructing the logic of debatable meanings. ; 2.3 Those who are 'without excuse'. Those referred to in 1:20. The one addressed in 2:1. The enthymeme as innuendo |
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2.4 The 'advantage' of the Jew in the context of universal sin. Affirmation and denial in 3:1-20. The proleptically enthymematic factor. 2.5 'Boasting' decried; the law upheld in the context of boundary-effacing faith. Romans 4 as key to 3:27-31. ; 2.6 Beyond the enthymematic. Some methodological considerations. ; 3 Ways in which enthymemes arise in Romans 5-7 ; 3.1 The peace of the justified in 5:1 as logically consequential. Uncertainties of enthymematic implication. ; 3.2 The Christian's confident hope; two-sided enthymematic support for 5:5. (The uncertain role of 5:12-21.) |
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3.3 Sinning in the interests of grace. The 'knock-down' enthymeme of 6:1. The tangled basis of its confutation (6:2-11). 3.4 Christian eschewal of sin; prescribing what is affirmed. Enthymematic construal of logical anomaly in 6:12. Its sequel. ; 3.5 The spirituality of the law upheld in refutation of the bipartite enthymematic 'Aunt Sally' of 7:7a and 7:13a. ; 3.6 Linking the role and status of the enthymeme to how and when it arises, within the ambit of Romans 5-7. ; 4 How enthymematic argument stands in Romans 8 |
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4.1 The Christian's reprieve and the two 'laws'. The case for seeing 8:1 as an inference enthymematically drawn from 8:2. Different ways of unpacking dpa, and their bearing on the issue. 4.2 Mortality, spirituality and filial inheritance. 8:9-17 and the regrounding of the argumentative dynamic through the enthymematic implications of Christian sonship. ; 4.3 From sonship and invincibility to totality of gifting. The enthymemes of 8:31-2: their finality and its redimensioning. ; 4.4 Security in the love of God. Paul's assurance (8:38) and its foundation in enthymeme and truism |
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Christianity Scriptures |
| Notes |
4.5 Range and limits of the implications of Romans 8 for the role of the enthymeme in Paul's discourse |
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Print version record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and indexes |
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Bible. N.T. Romans I-VIII -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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| Subject |
Faith and reason -- Christianity.
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Enthymeme (Logic).
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thrall, Margaret E. (Margaret Eleanor)
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| ISBN |
0511520433 |
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9780511520433 |
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