The Bible as Rhetoric

Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility

M Warner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-88281-9 (ISBN)

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First Published in 1990, The Bible as Rhetoric explores the ways in which the persuasive strategies employed in the biblical texts to their preoccupations with religious and historical truth.

First Published in 1990, The Bible as Rhetoric explores the ways in which the persuasive strategies employed in the biblical texts relate (both positively and negatively) to their preoccupations with religious and historical truth. The book contains pioneering interdisciplinary papers that clarify what is at issue in the apparently competing claims that the Bible should be read ‘as literature’ and ‘as scripture’.

Uniquely, the volume brings together philosophers, literary critics, biblical scholars, theologians, and historians of ideas who combine the best biblical and historical scholarship with a range of contemporary approaches to the study of texts, from the deconstructive and the feminist through the Wittgensteinian to those of the heirs of the tradition of practical criticism. The volume is of importance both to those interested in the applications of contemporary literary theory and to all those concerned with the relation between religious and secular readings of the Bible.

Martin Warner teaches philosophy at the University of Warwick and was the founding Programme Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature.

Notes on the Contributors Biblical Translations Introduction Prologue 1. The Bible and the rhetorical sublime Part I: Old Testament and Apocrypha 2. History and rhetoric in the prophets 3. Deconstructing the Book of Job 4. Biblical story and the heroine Part II: New Testament 5. History, truth, and narrative 6. ‘Tales artfully spun’ 7. ‘In the sermon which I have just completed, wherever I said Aristotle, I meant Saint Paul’ 8. The Fourth Gospel’s art of rational persuasion 9. The World could not contain the books 10. ‘Truth’ and ‘rhetoric’ in the Pauline Epistles Epilogue 11. The language of ecstasy and the ecstasy of language Bibliography Index of Biblical References General Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-88281-6 / 1032882816
ISBN-13	978-1-032-88281-9 / 9781032882819
Zustand	Neuware