Vain Rhetoric: Private Insight and Public Debate in Ecclesiastes (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 327) - Hardcover

Salyer, Gary D.

 
9781841271811: Vain Rhetoric: Private Insight and Public Debate in Ecclesiastes (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 327)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1841271810 ISBN 13: 9781841271811
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001

Synopsis

The Book of Ecclesiastes, like many ancient and modern first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical strategy produces both acceptance of, and suspicion towards, the major positions argued by the author. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes the persuasive and dissuasive properties of the narrator's peculiar characterization. It also describes how the Book of Ecclesiates, with its abundant use of rhetorical questions, constant gapping techniques, and other strategies from the arsenal of ambiguity, is a stunning testimony to the power of the various strategies of indirection to communicate to the reader something of his or her own rhetorical liabilities and limitations, as well as those of the religious community in general.

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About the Authors

Andrew Mein is Director of Research at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, UK

Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.

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Publisher
Sheffield Academic Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1841271810
ISBN 13 
9781841271811
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
448