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Rhetoric, scripture, and theology : essays from the 1994 Pretoria Conference / edited by Stanley E. Porter and Thomas H. Olbricht.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Rhetoric and Religion Conference (1994 : University of South Africa)
- Series:
- Library of New Testament studies.
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 131.
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 131
- Library of New Testament studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric in the Bible--Congresses.
- Rhetoric in the Bible.
- Rhetorical criticism--Congresses.
- Rhetorical criticism.
- Bible. New Testament--Language, style--Congresses.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1996]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613201430
- 9781283201438
- 1283201437
- 9780567645883
- 0567645886
- OCLC:
- 745866030
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