The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture: Essays from the 1995 London Conference
By (Author) Stanley E. Porter
Edited by Professor Thomas H. Olbricht
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sheffield Academic Press
1st September 1997
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
220.66
Hardback
505
885g
This is the third in a series of conference papers on rhetorical criticism. Held in July 1995 in London, the conference included participants from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Republic of South Africa. Part I is concerned with the past, present and future of rhetorical analysis; Parts II, III and IV are concerned with rhetorical analysis of scriptural texts; and Part V provides a conclusion reflecting on a number of questions raised in Part I. Most of the participants would characterize themselves as advocates of rhetorical criticism; but there were others less convinced that rhetorical criticism is developing as it ought.
Stanley E. Porter is President, Dean and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada. Thomas Olbricht is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion, Pepperdine University..