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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789510203321

Titolo

Rhetoric, scripture, and theology : essays from the 1994 Pretoria Conference / / edited by Stanley E. Porter and Thomas H. Olbricht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1996]

©1996

ISBN

1-283-20143-7

9786613201430

0-567-64588-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; ; 131

Library of New Testament studies

Disciplina

220.6/6

Soggetti

Rhetoric in the Bible

Rhetorical criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779277303321

Autore

Garisch Dawn

Titolo

Eloquent body [[electronic resource] /] / Dawn Garisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athlone, South Africa, : Modjaji Books, 2012

ISBN

1-920590-17-X

1-280-68372-4

9786613660664

1-920590-19-6

1-920590-18-8

1-920590-20-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Soggetti

Healing

Creative ability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Talking to myself across the table -- pt. 2. Fear : the guardian with two faces -- pt. 3. Tracking the truth -- pt. 4. Heal thyself.

Sommario/riassunto

Eloquent Body explores the juxtaposition of healing and creativity both from a personal as well as medical point of view. Dawn Garisch works as a medical doctor and a writer in equal measure and advocates dialogue between our bodies and our creative selves. Her novel Trespass was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa.