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

By: Rhetoric and Religion Conference (1994 : University of South Africa)
Contributor(s): Porter, Stanley E, 1956- | Olbricht, Thomas H
Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal for the study of the New Testament: 131.Publisher: Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 438 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1850756074Subject(s): Bible. New Testament -- Language, style -- Congresses | Rhetoric in the Bible -- Congresses | Rhetorical criticism -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Editors' preface / Stanley E. Porter, Thomas H. Olbricht --Introduction / Pieter J.J. Botha, Johannes N. Vorster -- Challenging the rhetorical half-turn : feminist and rhetorical biblical criticism / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Reading and divine sanction : the ethics of interpreting the New Tetament in the new South Africa / Pieter F. Craffert -- Rhetorical criticism and social-scientific criticism : why won't romanticism leave us alone? / Bruce J. Malina -- The rhetoric of sacred scripture / H.J. Bernard Combrink -- The father of lies : autobiographical acts in recent biblical criticism and contemporary literary theory / Jeffrey L. Staley -- Why should the possibility of rabbinic rhetorical elements in Pauline writings (e.g. Galatians) be reconsidered? / Richard Lemmer -- 'Postmodern' rhetoric and the former prophetic literature / J.P.H. Wessels --Adonai Shalom (Judges 6-9) : the persuasive means of a narrative and the strategies of inculturation of Yahawism in a new context / Benoît Standaert, OSB -- Who is responsible for Uzzah's death? : rhetoric in 1 Chronicles 13 / Gerrie Snyman -- The realm of prophetic rhetoric / Yehoshua Gitay -- A rhetorical history : the literary genre of the Acts of the Apostles / Kota Yamada -- The invention of 1 Thessalonians : a proposal / James D. Hester -- The communicative power of the Epistle to the Ephesians / Elna Mouton -- The stoicheia and the rhetoric of Colossians : then and now / Thomas H. Olbricht -- Style never goes out of fashion : 2 Peter re-evaluated / Lauri Thurén -- A rhetoric of gender in early Christianity : sex and salvation in the Acts of Thomas / Paul Germond -- Beyond apologetics : mythology, rhetoric and the other in early eighteenth-century France / Philippe-Joseph Salazar --The rhetoric of the scapegoat : a deconstructive view on postmodern hermeneutics / D.P. Goosen -- Theology as rhetoric? or: guess who's coming to dinner / Dirk J. Smit.

"Proceedings of the Rhetoric and Religion Conference held at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, August 15-19, 1994."--Editors' preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Editors' preface / Stanley E. Porter, Thomas H. Olbricht --Introduction / Pieter J.J. Botha, Johannes N. Vorster -- Challenging the rhetorical half-turn : feminist and rhetorical biblical criticism / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Reading and divine sanction : the ethics of interpreting the New Tetament in the new South Africa / Pieter F. Craffert -- Rhetorical criticism and social-scientific criticism : why won't romanticism leave us alone? / Bruce J. Malina -- The rhetoric of sacred scripture / H.J. Bernard Combrink -- The father of lies : autobiographical acts in recent biblical criticism and contemporary literary theory / Jeffrey L. Staley -- Why should the possibility of rabbinic rhetorical elements in Pauline writings (e.g. Galatians) be reconsidered? / Richard Lemmer -- 'Postmodern' rhetoric and the former prophetic literature / J.P.H. Wessels --Adonai Shalom (Judges 6-9) : the persuasive means of a narrative and the strategies of inculturation of Yahawism in a new context / Benoît Standaert, OSB -- Who is responsible for Uzzah's death? : rhetoric in 1 Chronicles 13 / Gerrie Snyman -- The realm of prophetic rhetoric / Yehoshua Gitay -- A rhetorical history : the literary genre of the Acts of the Apostles / Kota Yamada -- The invention of 1 Thessalonians : a proposal / James D. Hester -- The communicative power of the Epistle to the Ephesians / Elna Mouton -- The stoicheia and the rhetoric of Colossians : then and now / Thomas H. Olbricht -- Style never goes out of fashion : 2 Peter re-evaluated / Lauri Thurén -- A rhetoric of gender in early Christianity : sex and salvation in the Acts of Thomas / Paul Germond -- Beyond apologetics : mythology, rhetoric and the other in early eighteenth-century France / Philippe-Joseph Salazar --The rhetoric of the scapegoat : a deconstructive view on postmodern hermeneutics / D.P. Goosen -- Theology as rhetoric? or: guess who's coming to dinner / Dirk J. Smit.

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