Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible: A Comprehensive by Duane Frederick Watson, Alan J. Hauser

By Duane Frederick Watson, Alan J. Hauser

This quantity is designed as a source for utilizing rhetorical feedback as a strategy for studying the Bible. Rhetorical feedback is taken care of within the broader context of the turning out to be curiosity within the research of the literary personality of the Bible. the amount is split into elements to house either the outdated and New Testaments. every one half starts with a dialogue of the background and technique of rhetorical feedback pertinent to that testomony. specified emphasis is given to the present nation and developments of the self-discipline and its impression on biblical interpretation. those discussions are by way of broad bibliographies classified to facilitate operating with the printed examine on particular biblical texts, books or different types of books. This quantity might be of curiosity to biblical students, specially these drawn to rhetorical feedback and literary methods to the Bible; classicists; these attracted to the self-discipline of rhetoric; and educational libraries for reference collections.

Show description

Read or Download Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible: A Comprehensive Bibliography with Notes on History and Method (Biblical Interpretation Series 4) PDF

Best criticism books

Žižek and Politics: A Critical Introduction (Thinking Politics)

In Zizek and Politics, Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe transcend ordinary introductions to spell out a brand new method of examining Zizek, person who will be hugely severe in addition to deeply appreciative. They express that Zizek has a raft of primary positions that let his theoretical positions to be positioned to paintings on functional difficulties.

Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China

Imperial Manchu help and patronage of Buddhism, really in Mongolia and Tibet, has usually been disregarded as cynical political manipulation. Empire of vacancy questions this generalization via taking a clean examine the large outpouring of Buddhist portray, sculpture, and ornamental arts Qing courtroom artists produced for distribution during the empire.

African Sculpture

163 full-page plates Illustrating mask, fertility figures, ceremonial items, and so on. , of fifty West and relevant African tribes—95% by no means prior to illustrated. 34-page advent to African sculpture. «Mr. Segy is one in every of its most sensible authorities,» New Yorker. 164 full-page photographic plates.

The Age of Rembrandt Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Произведения голландских художников эпохи Рембрандта из собрания музея The Metropolitan Museum of paintings

Additional info for Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible: A Comprehensive Bibliography with Notes on History and Method (Biblical Interpretation Series 4)

Example text

28). The unity of the poem derives from the cumulative effect of these diverse sub-scenes upon the reader, rather than from a repetition of key integrating words or phrases. In narrative, subunits are commonly designated by the movement from one scene to another, and are marked by standard transitional phrases, the introduction of a new character, or a sudden change in the course of events. J. Hauser and R. Gregory, From Carmel to Horeb: Elijah in Crisis (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1990) 11-82.

A. Spencer; Pittsburgh: Pickwick, 19,80) 115-27. BIBLIOGRAPHY 31 KEDAR, B. Biblische Semantik: Eine Einfiihrung (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1981). , Interpreting the Bible (New York: Paulist, 1985). , The Art of Persuasion of Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1963). - - , Classical Rhetoric and its Chnstian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1980). - - , "The Earliest Rhetorical Handbooks," AlP 80 (1959) 169-78. , The GenesIs of Secrecy: On The Interpretation of Narrative (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1979).

11; New York: Abingdon, 1982). , "The Anatomy of Divine Comedy: On Reading the Bible as Comedy and Tragedy," Semeia 32 (1984) 115-29. - - , "New Directions in the Study of Biblical Hebrew Narrative," JSOT 39 (1987) 65-75. - - , "Reading Right: Reliable and Omniscient Narrator, Omniscent God, and Foolproof Composition in the Hebrew Bible," The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration of Forty Years ofBiblical Studies in the University ofSheffield (eds. A. E. E. Porter; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1990) 53-64.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.90 of 5 – based on 6 votes