| Description |
1 online resource (449 pages) |
| Series |
The Library of New Testament Studies |
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Library of New Testament studies.
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| Contents |
Editors' Preface: Stanley E. Porter and Thomas H. Olbricht; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I. RHETORICAL METHOD AND SCRIPTURAL INTERPRETATION; Challenging the Rhetorical Half-Turn: Feminist and Rhetorical Biblical Criticism; Reading and Divine Sanction: The Ethics of Interpreting the New Testament in the New South Africa; Rhetorical Criticism and Social-Scientific Criticism: Why Won't Romanticism Leave Us Alone?; The Rhetoric of Sacred Scripture; The Father of Lies: Autobiographical Acts in Recent Biblical Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory |
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Why Should the Possibility of Rabbinic Rhetorical Elements in Pauline Writings (e.g. Galatians) Be Reconsidered?Part II. RHETORIC AND SCRIPTURE; 'Postmodern' Rhetoric and the Former Prophetic Literature; Adonai Shalom (Judges 6-9): The Persuasive Means of a Narrative and the Strategies of Inculturation of Yahwism in a New Context; Who is Responsible for Uzzah's Death? Rhetoric in 1 Chronicles 13; The Realm of Prophetic Rhetoric; A Rhetorical History: The Literary Genre of the Acts of the Apostles; The Invention of 1 Thessalonians: A Proposal |
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The Communicative Power of the Epistle to the EphesiansThe Stoicheia and the Rhetoric of Colossians: Then and Now; Style Never Goes out of Fashion: 2 Peter Re-Evaluated; Part III. RHETORIC AND THEOLOGY; A Rhetoric of Gender in Early Christianity: Sex and Salvation in the Acts of Thomas; Beyond Apologetics: Mythology, Rhetoric and the Other in Early Eighteenth-Century France; The Rhetoric of the Scapegoat: A Deconstructive View on Postmodern Hermeneutics; Theology as Rhetoric? Or: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Index of References; Index of Authors |
| Summary |
Rhetoric, Scripture and Theology aptly describe the contents of this collection of essays from the 1994 Pretoria Rhetoric Conference. The conference marked a significant dialogue among scholars gathered from many nations to consider how rhetoric engages with the study of scripture and theology. South Africa provided a suitable context for such discussion. Although the contributors are not only from South Africa, the addressing of issues pertinent to a South African context shows through in many of the essays. Those that do not address particularly South African issues raise equally important i |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. New Testament -- Language, style -- Congresses
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Bible. New Testament fast |
| Subject |
Rhetoric in the Bible -- Congresses
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Rhetorical criticism -- Congresses
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Language and languages -- Style
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Rhetoric in the Bible
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Rhetorical criticism
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olbricht, Thomas H
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| ISBN |
9780567645883 |
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0567645886 |
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