Rhetoric Of Digressions

Author : Peter S. Perry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498200561

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Rhetoric of Digressions by Peter S. Perry Pdf

Revelation 7:1-17 occurs between the opening of the sixth and seventh seal and Rev 10:1-11:13 between the sixth and seventh trumpet blasts. Interpreters often explain these passages as "interludes," "parentheses," or "expansions," but not in terms of ancient communication. Peter S. Perry analyzes these interruptions in the seals and trumpets in light of digressions in ancient rhetorical theory and practice. Digressions are described by Hermagoras, Cicero, and Quintilian and widely used, including in Josephus' works, Jubilees, Sibylline Oracles I/II, Zechariah, and Exodus. As with other ancient digressions, Rev 7:1-17 and 10:1-11:13 are unessential to the logical flow but essential to the book's impact. These passages excite the emotions, shape character, and give insight into John's rhetorical strategy and goals.

Author : Lawrence W. Gross
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780826363213

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Native American Rhetoric by Lawrence W. Gross Pdf

Native American Rhetoric is the first book to explore rhetorical traditions from within individual Native communities and Native languages. The essays set a new standard for how rhetoric is talked about, written about, and taught. The contributors argue that Native rhetorical practices have their own interior logic, which is grounded in the morality and religion of their given traditions. Once we understand the ways in which Native rhetorical practices are rooted in culture and tradition, the phenomenological expression of the speech patterns becomes clear. The value of Native communities and their languages is underlined throughout the essays. Lawrence W. Gross and the contributors successfully represent several, but not all, Native communities across the United States and Mexico, including the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Choctaw, Nahua, Chickasaw and Chicana, Tohono O'odham, Navajo, Apache, Hupa, Lower Coast Salish, Koyukon, Tlingit, and Nez Perce. Native American Rhetoric will be an essential resource for continued discussions of Native American rhetorical practices in and beyond the discipline of rhetoric.

Author : Margaret M. Mitchell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664221777

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Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation by Margaret M. Mitchell Pdf

This work casts new light on the genre, function, and composition of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Margaret Mitchell thoroughly documents her argument that First Corinthians was a single letter, not a combination of fragments, whose aim was to persuade the Corinthian Christian community to become unified.

Author : Ben Witherington,Jason A. Myers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532689680

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New Testament Rhetoric, Second Edition by Ben Witherington,Jason A. Myers Pdf

Witherington and Myers provide a much-needed introduction to the ancient art of persuasion and its use within the various New Testament documents. More than just an exploration of the use of the ancient rhetorical tools and devices, this guide introduces the reader to all that went into convincing an audience about some subject. Witherington and Myers make the case that rhetorical criticism is a more fruitful approach to the NT epistles than the oft-employed approaches of literary and discourse criticism. Familiarity with the art of rhetoric also helps the reader explore non-epistolary genres. In addition to the general introduction to rhetorical criticism, the book guides readers through the many and varied uses of rhetoric in most NT documents—not only telling readers about rhetoric in the NT, but showing them the way it was employed. “This brief guide book is intended to provide the reader with an entrance into understanding the rhetorical analysis of various parts of the NT, the value such studies bring for understanding what is being proclaimed and defended in the NT, and how Christ is presented in ways that would be considered persuasive in antiquity.” – from the introduction

Author : David Edward Aune
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664219179

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The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric by David Edward Aune Pdf

The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric details the variety of literary and rhetorical forms found in the New Testament and in the literature of the early Christian church. This authoritative reference source is a treasury for understanding the methods employed by New Testament and early Christian writers. Aune's extensive study will be of immense value to scholars and all those interested in the ways literary and rhetorical forms were used and how they functioned in the early Christian world. This unique and encyclopedic study will serve generations of scholars and students by illuminating the ways words shaped the consciousness of those who encountered Christian teachings.

Author : Robyn J. Whitaker
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161539788

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Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation by Robyn J. Whitaker Pdf

Robyn. J. Whitaker interprets the Book of Revelation within the context of ancient rhetoric and religion. She argues that the author of Revelation uses a popular rhetorical tool, ekphrasis, to paint word-pictures of God that compete with material images to both critique image-making and simultaneously make an absent God present.

Author : Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451407610

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Rhetoric and Ethic by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Pdf

In this major study, leading feminist biblical critic Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza focuses on Paul and his interpreters. She questions the apolitical ethos of biblical scholarship and argues for an alternative rooted in a critical understanding of language as a form of power. Modern biblical criticism, she reasons, derives much of its methodology and inspiration from an outdated notion of modern science. It professes value-neutrality and detachment from the world of politics and history. Yet, Schussler Fiorenza maintains, this posture belies an objectivity that fails to engage the sociopolitical context of both the text and today's reader. It also does not recognize the rhetorical character of biblical texts and readings. If language is understood in the sense of ancient rhetorics as a form of power that constitutes reality, then an ethics of interpretation is called for. The task of biblical studies is to identify and assess the ethical resources and moral visions of biblical religions. "Only then," Schussler Fiorenza contends, "will bibical studies be a significant partner in the global struggles seeking justice and well-being for all."

Author : Darryl P. Domingo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107146273

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The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760 by Darryl P. Domingo Pdf

A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion. Chapters explore a range of diversionary preoccupations and argue that the devices of digressive wit adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in eighteenth-century culture.

Author : Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773552586

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Timely Voices by Goran Stanivukovic Pdf

From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis – an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones – English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing. Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read and interpret this ever-changing form. Addressing the various ways in which romance has absorbed and been absorbed by drama, prose, and poetry, contributors to this volume demonstrate that romance texts do not produce something defined or confined by a static genre, but rather express a repository of creative possibilities. Covering writers including the anonymous author of Sir Orfeo, Jane Austen, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Lucy Hutchinson, William Morris, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, and Edmund Spenser, essays explore the magic and wonder of romance, Irish and Gaelic lore, how woodcuts in early books complement and extend printed text, how romance was dramatized, how it gives language to feminist politics and ideology, and how it becomes a counterpoint to finance in the fiction of the early Romantic period. A nuanced reinterpretation of romance in its own terms, Timely Voices inspires new appreciation of this form as a solution to textual, aesthetic, structural, ideological, and political problems in literature.

Author : A. Grohmann,C. Wells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230292529

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Digressions in European Literature by A. Grohmann,C. Wells Pdf

With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.

Author : Darryl P. Domingo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1316562816

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The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1760 by Darryl P. Domingo Pdf

Author : Matthew R. Malcolm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107032095

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Paul and the Rhetoric of Reversal in 1 Corinthians by Matthew R. Malcolm Pdf

This book examines why Paul waits until the end of his letter to the Corinthians before mentioning the important theme of resurrection.

Author : Thomas H. Olbricht
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144786

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Rhetoric and Scripture by Thomas H. Olbricht Pdf

This book offers a unique overview of the development of rhetorical criticism both in North America and internationally through the work of pioneering New Testament scholar Thomas H. Olbricht. Lauri Thurén has gathered nineteen of Olbricht's essays as a guidebook to rhetorical criticism for students, clergy, and scholars. The range of essays from throughout Olbricht's career illuminate the history of rhetorical criticism and reflect the different motivations of ancient and contemporary rhetorical approaches. Essays focus on the history of biblical rhetorical analysis, the rhetorical analysis of biblical texts, the characteristics of rhetorical analysis, and types of biblical rhetorical criticism. A foreword by Thurén and a memorial essay by Carl R. Holladay contextualize Olbricht's work. Anyone interested in the rhetorical study of the New Testament will find this volume inspiring and informative.

Author : Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111320908

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Digressions in Classical Historiography by Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis Pdf

Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.

Author : Irene Peirano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139560382

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The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake by Irene Peirano Pdf

Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which collaborative practices of supplementation, recasting and role-play were the absolute cornerstones of rhetorical education and literary practice. Texts such as the Catalepton, the Consolatio ad Liviam and the Panegyricus Messallae thus illuminate the strategies whereby Imperial audiences received and interrogated canonical texts and are here explored as key moments in the Imperial reception of Augustan authors such as Virgil, Ovid and Tibullus. The study of the rhetoric of these creative supplements irreverently mingling truth and fiction reveals much not only about the neighbouring concepts of fiction, authenticity and reality, but also about the tacit assumptions by which the latter are employed in literary criticism.