Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts.Rhetorical criticism Rhetorical criticism is an approach to criticism which is at least as old as Aristotle. Rhetorical criticism studies the use of words and phrases (in the case of visual rhetoric, also visuals) to explicate how arguments have been built to drive home a certain point the author or of biblical texts is a growth industry. Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts, edited by Anders Eriksson Anders Eriksson (born January 9, 1975, in Bollnäs, Sweden) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player with the Calgary Flames in the NHL. Playing career He was drafted 23rd overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings. , Thomas H. Olbricht, and Walter Ubelacker (Trinity Press International, $47), contains the papers from the sixth conference on the rhetorical analysis of Scripture held in Lund, Sweden, in 2000. The conference focused on rhetorical argumentation (as opposed to genre analysis, rhetorical structure of documents, etc.). The 23 articles discuss argumentation theory Argumentation theory, or argumentation, embraces the arts and sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation, and persuasion. It studies rules of inference, logic, and procedural rules in both artificial and real world settings. and method, historical background (the enthymeme en·thy·meme n. Logic A syllogism in which one of the premises or the conclusion is not stated explicitly. [Latin enth and letter writing), rhetorical argumentation in the Old Testament (two articles), the Gospels (four), Pauline letters (nine), Hebrews (one), and Apocalyptic and Romance (one, on the Shepherd of Hermas and the Acta Petri). The articles are all quality contributions. I found especially useful R. Dean Anderson's evaluation of the utility of Lausberg's Handbook of Literary Rhetoric for the study of ancient texts (some negative strictures), Carol Poster's study of the economy of letter writing in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Johan S. Vos on sophistic so·phis·tic or so·phis·ti·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sophists. 2. Apparently sound but really fallacious; specious: sophistic refutations. argumentation in Romans, Anders Erikson on "Enthymemes in Pauline Argumentation" (in 1 Corinthians), Rollin A. Ramsaran on the use of the maxim "Living and dying, living is dying" in Philippians, and Thomas H. Olbricht's "Anticipating and Presenting the Case for Christ as High Priest in Hebrews." This is a worthy sixth volume in this series on rhetoric and the Bible. It is also volume 8 in the Emory Studies in Early Christianity The term Early Christianity here refers to Christianity of the period after the Death of Jesus in the early 30s and before the First Council of Nicaea in 325. The term is sometimes used in a narrower sense of just the very first followers (disciples) of Jesus of Nazareth and the . EK |
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