Vain rhetoric : private insight and public debate in Ecclesiastes / Gary D. Salyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salyer, Gary D.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 327.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 327

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Ecclesiastes--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Ecclesiastes--Language, style.

Hebrew language--Style.

Hebrew language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The Book of Ecclesiastes, like many ancient and modern first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical strategy produces both acceptance of, and suspicion towards, the major positions argued by the author. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes the persuasive and dissuasive properties of the narrator's peculiar characterization. It also describes how the Book of Ecclesiates, with its abundant use of rhetorical questions, constant gapping techniques, and other strategies from the arsenal of ambiguity, is a stunning testimony to the power of the various str

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 PROLEGOMENA: TOWARD A THEORY OF READING SCRIPTURAL TEXTS; Chapter 2 READING ECCLESIASTES AS A FIRST-PERSON SCRIPTURAL TEXT; Chapter 3 AMBIGUITIES, RIDDLES AND PUZZLES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE LINGUISTIC AND STRUCTURAL READER PROBLEMS IN THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES; Chapter 4 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SPIRAL: THE IRONIC USE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE KNOWLEDGE IN THE NARRATIVE PRESENTATION OF QOHELETH; Chapter 5 ROBUST RETICENCE AND THE RHETORIC OF THE SELF: READER RELATIONSHIPS AND THE USE OF FIRST-PERSON DISCOURSE IN ECCLESIASTES 1.1-6.9

Chapter 6 A RHETORIC OF SUBVERSIVE SUBTLETY: THE EFFECT OF QOHELETH'S FIRST-PERSON DISCOURSE ON READER RELATIONSHIPS IN ECCLESIASTES 6.10-12.14Chapter 7 VAIN RHETORIC: SOME CONCLUSIONS; Appendix: WISDOM REFLECTIONS (PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE) IN THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Theological Union, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611841775

9781281841773

1281841773

9780567644541

0567644545

OCLC:

277006457