Rethinking Paul's rhetorical education : comparative rhetoric and 2 Corinthians 10-13 / Ryan S. Schellenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schellenberg, Ryan S.

Series:

Early Christianity and its literature ; no. 10.

Early Christianity and its literature ; number 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul, the Apostle, Saint.

Paul.

Bible. Corinthians, 2nd--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Rhetoric in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Other Title:

Rethinking Paul's Rhetorical Education

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies 2015 F. W. Beare Award Did Paul have formal training in Greco-Roman rhetoric, or did he learn what he knew of persuasion informally, as social practice? Pauline scholars recognize the importance of this question both for determining Paul's social status and for conceptualizing the nature of his letters, but they have been unable to reach a consensus. Using 2 Corinthians 10-13 as a test case, Ryan Schellenberg undertakes a set of comparisons with non-Western speakers--most compellingly, the Seneca orator Red Jacket--to demonstrate that the rhetorical strategies Paul employs in this text are also attested in speakers known to have had no formal training in Greco-Roman rhetoric. Since there are no specific indicators of formal training in the way Paul uses these strategies, their appearance in his letters does not constitute evidence that Paul received formal rhetorical education.

Contents:

Part 1: Paul's rhetorical education in recent scholarship. From unschooled tentmaker to educated rhetorician

Second Corinthians 10-13 : a historical and literary introduction

Part 2: Querying rhetorical criticism of 2 Corinthians 10-13. Forensic rhetoric, epistolary types, and rhetorical education

Paul's (in)appropriate boasting : periautologia

Peristasis catalogues : rhythm, amplification, Klangfiguren

Not a fool, a fool's mask : Narrenrede and prosōpopoiia

Synkrisis in Corinth

Not a fool, it's (only) irony

Part 3: Rhetoric as informal social practice. Toward a theory of general rhetoric

Attending to other voices

The acquisition of informal rhetorical knowledge

[Hidiōtēs tō Logō]

Conclusion : "where is the voice coming from?".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-371) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 8, 2013).

ISBN:

1-58983-780-0

9781589837805

1589837800

OCLC:

927515814