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WHAT'S IN THE WORD
RETHINKING THE SOCIO-RHETORICAL CHARACTER OF THE NEW TESTAMENT |
| By: |
Ben Witherington |
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Paperback |
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£28.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1602581967 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781602581968 |
| Publisher: |
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2009 |
| Pages: |
203 |
| Description: |
Explains how the recognition of the oral and socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament and its environment necessitates a change in how the New Testament literature is read. This title challenges the previously assured results of historical criticism and demonstrates how the socio-rhetorical study shifts the paradigm. |
| Synopsis: |
Written in clear, and at times colorful, prose, Ben Witherington's What's in the Word explains how the recognition of the oral and socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament and its environment necessitates a change in how the New Testament literature is read. Expanding on the work in which he has been fruitfully engaged for over a quarter century, Witherington challenges the previously assured results of historical criticism and demonstrates chapter by chapter how the socio-rhetorical study shifts the paradigm. Taken together, the chapters in What's in the Word coalesce around three of Witherington's ongoing academic concerns: orality and rhetoric; New Testament history, including issues of authenticity and canonicity; and the exegesis of given words in their canonical and socio-cultural contexts. Always unpredictable, this book never fails to pique interest and proffer instruction. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Baylor University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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