COHESION AND STRUCTURE IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES by Ray Van Neste ( 9780567083371 )

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COHESION AND STRUCTURE IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES

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ISBN 10:

0567083373

ISBN 13:

9780567083371

Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

18 October, 2004

Series:

Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement S. v. 280

Pages:

376

Synopsis:

Ray Van Neste seeks to further the scholarly discussion of the coherence of the Pastoral Epistles by providing the most thorough analysis to date of the cohesion of each letter. The need for such a study arises from two sources. First, the previous works on coherence of the Pastorals, which have turned the tide of scholarship, focused on thematic coherence of the corpus. Second, a renewed and even more extreme argument for incoherence has recently been published (James D. Miller, The Pastoral Letters as Composite Documents) which begs response along the lines just suggested since it analyzes connections and lack thereof within and between the discourse units. Van Neste examines 1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus to determine the boundaries of each discourse unit using cohesion shift analysis. The cohesion of each unit is then analyzed, noting common devices from the ancient epistolary genre, rhetorical devices, lexical and semantic repetition and symmetrical patterns. He also focuses on connections between the units in the letter - connections between contiguous units, semantic chains, and the grouping of units into larger sections.Thus the variety of connections across and throughout the letter are highlighted. This is volume 280 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series.

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black & white illustrations

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T.& T.Clark Ltd

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