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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; PART ONE The Sermon to the Hebrews; Introduction to Hebrews; Hebrews; PART TWO James the Homily; Introduction to James; James; PART THREE Jude-Another Brother's Sermon; Introduction to Jude; Jude; Index of Names; Index of Ancient Sources; More Titles from InterVarsity Press.

In this commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude, Ben Witherington III applies his socio-rhetorical method to elucidate these letters within their primarily Jewish context, probing the social setting of the readers and the rhetorical strategies of the authors of the letters.

• Acknowledgements
• 1. Rhetoric, Jesus, and Scripture in the Fourth Gospel: An Introduction
• 2. Evangelist and Protagonist: Narrator, Narrative, and Person in Mediterranean Antiquity
• 3. Speaking Scripture: The Evangelist's Voice Mediated through the Discourses of Jesus
• 4. Reflecting Scriptur: the Evangelist's Voice Mediated outside the Discourses of Jesus
• 5. Conclusion Bibliography Biblical and Other Ancient Sources Index Index of Modern Authors.
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This study explores how the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism, Myers approaches the Gospel in its final form, paying particular attention to how Greco-Roman rhetoric can assist in understanding the ways in which Scripture is employed to support the presentation of Jesus. It offers further evidence in favour of the Gospel's use of rhetoric (particularly the practices of synkrisis, ekpharsis, and prosopopoiia), and gives scholars a new way to use rhetoric to better understand the use of Scripture in the Fourth Gospel and the New Testament as a whole. The book proceeds in three parts. First, it examines ancient Mediterranean practices of narration and characterization in relationship to the Gospel, concluding with an analysis of the Johannine prologue. In the second and third parts, it investigates explicit appeals to Scripture that are made both in and outside of Jesus' discourses. Through these analyses, Myers contends that the pervasive presence of Scripture in quotations, allusions, and references acts as corroborating evidence supporting the evangelist's presentation of Jesus.
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• 1. : Atti del primo Convegno RBS. -
• 2009. - 318 p.
• 2. Atti del secondo convegno RBS.

• Introduction: The Florence Conference and Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible
• Part 1 THE THEORY OF RHETORICAL CRITICISM
• Part 2 RHETORICAL CRITICISM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
• Part 3 RHETORICAL CRITICISM OF THE GOSPELS
• Part 4 RHETORICAL CRITICISM OF THE PAULINE LETTERS.
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This volume is the fifth in a series that explores the use of rhetoric in the study of biblical literature. Contributions from scholars in North America, Britain, Continental Europe and South Africa focus here on four major categories: The Theory of Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation, Rhetorical Interpretation of Luke's Gospel and Acts, The Rhetorical Interpretation of Paul's Writings, and Rhetorical Interpretation of Hebrews and Ignatius. Author include Tom Olbricht, Douglas Campbell, Arthur Gibson, Craig Evans, Vernon Robbins, Greg Bloomquist, Pieter Botha, Paul Danove, Gerrie Snyman, Anders Eriksson, K. K. Yeo, Lauri Thuren, G. A. van den Heever, Marc Debanne, J. N Vorster, and the editors.
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• Introduction: for a biblical (wo/man) scholar to speak in the ekklesia
• The ethics of biblical interpretation: decentering biblical scholarship
• Changing the paradigms: the ethos of biblical studies
• Shifting the focus: the politics of biblical studies
• Challenging the rhetorical half-turn: feminist and rhetorical biblical criticism
• Rhetorical situation and historical reconstruction in 1 Corinthians
• The rhetoricity of historical knowledge: Pauline discourse and its contextualizations
• Ideology, power, and interpretation: Galatians 3:28
• Pauline theology and the politics of meaning.

• Speech act theory and indirect speech acts
• Analysis of rhetorical questions and other similar types of interrogatives
• The performative dimensions of rhetorical questions in the Hebrew Bible
• Conclusion.

"This book sets out to describe the multi-dimensional nature and function of rhetorical questions in the Old Testament. Biblical scholars have previously analyzed the use of rhetorical questions in both Testaments, but consistently describe their function in persuasive terms. While this understanding is appropriate in a number of instances, many rhetorical questions do not operate this way, and Jim W. Adams focuses in particular on rhetoric expressing the self-involvement of both the speaker and hearer"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction. Apocalyptic discourse, apocalyptic rhetoric / Greg Carey
• Destruction, construction, argumentation: a rhetorical reading of Isaiah 24-27 / Donald C. Polaski
• Is Daniel also among the prophets? The rhetoric of Daniel 10-12 / John Kaltner
• Paul's appropriation of apocalyptic discourse: the rhetorical strategy of 1 Thessalonians / Duane F. Watson
• Discipline and disclosure: Paul's apocalyptic asceticism in 1 Corinthians / Gail Corrington Streete
• Rhetorical ritual: apocalyptic discourse in Mark 13 / Vernon K. Robbins
• Fourth Ezra: reaffirming Jewish cultural values through apocalyptic rhetoric / David A. DeSilva
• In search of a voice: rhetoric through sight and sound in Revelation 11:15-12:17 / Edith M. Humphrey
• Ascension of Isaiah: characterization and conflict / Greg Carey
• Methodological criteria for apocalyptic rhetoric: a suggestion for the expanded use of sociorhetorical analysis / L. Gregory Bloomquist.

In this original work, Stone studies the structure and social presuppositions of several narratives from the Deuteronomistic History in which sexual activity plays a significant role. Both narratological and anthropological tools are utilized in the textual analysis. Stone interestingly notes the link between sexual activity, gender and prestige structures; the emphasis on male contest and female chastity discussed by anthropologists of honour and shame; and the role of the exchange of women in relations between men. In each story, sexual practice is primarily related to male struggles for honour and power.
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• The anatomy of the Fourth Gospel : major perspectives
• Encomiumvs. vituperation: contrasting portraits of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel
• Role and status in the Fourth Gospel : cutting through confusion
• Spaces and places, whence and whither, homes and rooms : "Territoriality" in the Fourth Gospel
• Narrative episodes in focus
• "Are you greater than our father Jacob?" : Jesus and Jacob in John 1:51 and 4:4-26
• "He must increase, I must decrease" (John 3:30) : a cultural and social interpretation
• What's wrong with this picture? : John 4, cultural stereotypes of women and public and private space
• "Equal to God" (John 5:18) : Jesus and God's two powers in the Fourth Gospel
• The trials (forensic) and tribulations (honor challenges) of Jesus : John 7 in social science perspective
• Jesus the judge : forensic process in John 8:21-59
• Secrecy, deception, and revelation : information control in the Fourth Gospel
• The "noble" Shepherd in John 10 : cultural and rhetorical background
• "I said: you are gods" : Psalm 82:6 and John 10
• "In conclusion ..." : John 12 as a rhetorical "peroratio"
• The footwashing in John 13:6-11 : transformation ritual or ceremony
• Worship in the Fourth Gospel : a cultural interpretation of John 14-17
• "Despising the shame of the cross" : honor and shame in the Johannine passion narrative
• Jesus vis-à-vis God : agent or equal?
• "My Lord and my God" : the heavenly character of Jesus in John's Gospel
• "I am the door" (John 10:7, 9) : Jesus the broker in the Fourth Gospel.

The Book of Revelation presents the reader with a frightening narrative world in which the people of God are tormented, threatened, and sometimes killed by various agents of Satan. Throughout the work, the Apocalyse points to Rome as the predominant demonic agent. Scholars have traditionally thought that Revelation was written in order to encourage believers to stand fast in the face of the Roman persecutation of the early Church. More recently, however, it has been argued that no such crisis existed at the time the book was written. In this study, Paul Duff offers a different viewpoint on the origin of the Book of Revelation is a rhetorically sophisticated response to an internal leadership crisis within the churches. In support of this argument Duff marshals evidence from the social and economic context of the time, and from literary and rhetorical analyses of the text. The result is a work that substantially advances the implication of the current consensus and sheds new light on this influential yet enigmatic text.
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This study analyzes the book of Ezekiel as a tool of communication, arguing that the book was designed to shape the self-understanding of the exilic community. A discussion of the historical context precedes a chapter that deals with the basic thrust and literary arrangement of Ezekiel. An examination of the individual rhetoric techniques and of crucial passages follows.
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• The intertexture of apocalyptic discourse in the Gospel of Mark / Vernon K. Robbins
• The intertexture of Lukan apocalyptic discourse / L. Gregory Bloomquist
• The interaction of social and scribal intertexture in Q's apocalyptic discourse / Russell B. Sisson
• Echoes of Isaiah in the rhetoric of Paul : new Exodus, wisdom, and the humility of the cross in Utopian-apocalyptic expectations / B.J. Oropeza
• Ambivalent apocalypse : apocalyptic rhetoric and intertextuality in 2 Corinthians / Edith M. Humphrey
• Apocalyptic discourse in 1 Thessalonians/ James D. Hester
• The apocalyptic intertexture of the Epistle of James / Wesley Hiram Wachob
• The oral-scribal and cultural intertexture of apocalyptic discourse in Jude and 2 Peter / Duane F. Watson
• Final topics: The rhetorical functions of intertexture in Revelation 14:14-16:21 / David A. deSilva.

• Reading the Apocalypse as Apocalypse : the limits of genre / Gregory L. Linton
• Apocalypse renewed : an intertextual reading of the Apocalypse of John / David E. Aune
• Beyond genre : the expectations of Apocalypse / David L. Barr
• Hearing and seeing but not saying : a rhetoric of authority / Jean-Pierre Ruiz
• To rejoice or not to rejoice? : rhetoric and the fall of Satan in Luke 10:17-24 and Rev. 12:1-17 / Edith M. Humphrey
• Sarcasm in Revelation 2-3 : churches, Christians, true Jews, and Satanic synagogues / Steven J. Friesen
• The "synagogue of Satan" : crisis mongering and the Apocalypse of John / Paul Duff
• Revelation and empire : symptoms of resistance / Greg Carey
• Dragon myth and imperial ideology in Revelation 12-13 / Jan Willem van Henten
• The Lamb who looks like a dragon? : characterizing Jesus in John's Apocalypse / David L. Barra
• Betwixt and between on the Lord's day : liturgy and the Apocalypse / Jean-Pierre Ruiz
• The rhetoricity of Revelation and the politics of interpretation / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.

• Introduction--
• 1. Sociostylistics and the exorcism in Luke 4:33-37--
• 2. Purity and the exorcism in Luke 8:26-39--
• 3. Discipleship and the exorcism in Luke 9:37-43a--
• 4. Paul, Jewish identity, and the exorcism in Acts 16:16-18-- Conclusion.
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This 2004 book in English integrates detailed literary criticism of the exorcism stories in Luke-Acts with wide-ranging comparative study of ancient sources on demonology, spirit affliction and exorcistic healing. Methods from systemic functional linguistics and critical theory are explained and then applied to each story. Careful focus is placed on each narrative's linguistic functions and also on relevant aspects of its literary co-text and the wider context of culture. Implications of the analysis for the new perspective on Luke-Acts, especially the implied author's relationship with Judaism, are explored in relation to the Lukan stories' original context of reception. Largely neglected interfaces between Luke's narrative representation of exorcism and emerging academic discourse about religious experience, shamanism, health care in antiquity, ritual performance and ancient Jewish systems of impurity are probed in ways that shed fresh light on this supremely alien part of the Lukan writings.
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Interprets Paul?'s letter in light of its rhetorical content and cultural context Skeptical of the trend among many biblical scholars to analyze Paul?'s short, affectionate letter to the Philippians in light of Greco-Roman letter-writing conventions, Ben Witherington instead looks at Philippians as a masterful piece of long-distance oratory an extension of Paul?'s oral speech, dictated to a scribe and meant to be read aloud to its recipients. Witherington examines Philippians in light of Greco-Roman rhetorical conventions, identifying Paul?'s purpose, highlighting his main points and his persuasive strategies, and considering how his original audience would have heard and received Paul?'s message.
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