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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789510203321
• 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