The Bible as Rhetoric (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032882859 ISBN 13: 9781032882857

Publisher: Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032882859
• ISBN 13: 9781032882857
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Warner M