Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah (Guides to Biblical Scholarship Old Testament) - Softcover

Trible, Phyllis

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9780800627980: Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah (Guides to Biblical Scholarship Old Testament)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0800627989 ISBN 13: 9780800627980
Publisher: Fortress Press, 1995

Synopsis

Phyllis Trible examines rhetorical criticism as a discipline within biblical studies. In Part One she surveys the historical antecedents of the method from ancient times to the postmodern era: classical rhetoric, literary critical theory, literary study of the Bible, and form criticism. Trible then presents samples of rhetorical analysis as the art of composition and as the art of persuasion.

In Part Two, formulated guidelines are applied to a detailed study of the book of Jonah. A close reading with respect to structure, syntax, style, and substance elicits a host of meanings embedded in text, enabling the relationship between artistry and theology to emerge with clarity.

Rhetorical Criticism has many distinctive features. It is

the first comprehensive treatment of biblical rhetorical criticism as it has emerged within the latter half of the twentieth century.

a didactic treatise that combines theoretical discussion, practical guidelines, and detailed exegesis

interdisciplinary in approach, engaging the rhetorical study of the Bible with expanding developments in secular literary criticism (structuralism, poetics, reader-response criticism, and deconstruction, for example) and in the similarly burgeoning field of contemporary rhetoric

itself a model of the rhetorical analysis that it describes

accessible both to the novice and to the scholar

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About the Author

Phyllis Trible is a renowned scholar in the field of feminist biblical scholarship. She has served as the Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature, Union Theological Seminary, New York, as well as associate dean, professor of biblical studies, and university professor at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her groundbreaking books include God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality and Rhetorical Criticism.

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Publisher
Fortress Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0800627989
ISBN 13 
9780800627980
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
280
Rating
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