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5 - Rhetorical Criticism

from Part I - Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2022

Ian Boxall
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Bradley C. Gregory
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

Rather than regard texts primarily as repositories of ideas or as resources for historical reconstruction, rhetorical interpretation reads them as dynamic interventions in the lives of social groups. This chapter uses the epistle to Philemon as a case study.

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Print publication year: 2022

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Bizzell, Patricia, Herzberg, Bruce, and Reames, Robin, eds. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford Books, 2020.Google Scholar
Kennedy, George A. New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martin, Troy W. ed., Genealogies of New Testament Rhetorical Criticism. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Parsons, Mikeal C., and Martin, Michael Wade. Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament: The Influence of Elementary Greek Composition. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Pernot, Lauren. Rhetoric in Antiquity. Translated by W. E. Higgins. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Porrovecchio, Mark J., and Condit, Celeste Michelle, eds. Contemporary Rhetorical Theory. 2nd ed. New York: Guilford, 2016.Google Scholar
Porter, Stanley E., and Dyer, Bryan R., eds. Paul and Ancient Rhetoric: Theory and Practice in the Hellenistic Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Robbins, Vernon K. The Invention of Christian Discourse. RRA 1. London: Deo, 2009.Google Scholar
Robbins, Vernon K., von Thaden, Robert H. Jr., and Bruehler, Bart B., eds. Foundations for Sociorhetorical Exploration: A Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity Reader. RRA 4. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics of Biblical Studies. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.Google Scholar

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  • Rhetorical Criticism
  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.007
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  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.007
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  • Rhetorical Criticism
  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.007
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