Academic Constraints in Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament: An Introduction to a Rhetoric of Power

by J. David Hester Amador

Overview

Rhetorical criticism promised to bring New Testament studies into a new era that approached the Bible as a document of persuasive discourse. Major proponents of this approach suggested that its potential lies in its democratization of biblical interpretation. To date, that promise has never been fulfilled. The reasons can be found by exploring the rhetoric of these rhetorical critics. Such an exploration uncovers systems of disciplinary constraints and discursive habits that keep rhetoric firmly within traditional units of academic biblical interpretation. The promise of rhetoric can only be fulfilled by shattering all notions of a rhetorical 'programme' of biblical interpretation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567250353
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Series:	The Library of New Testament Studies , #174
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	354
File size:	475 KB

About the Author

J.D.H. Amador is Lecturer, Department of Humanities, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California, USA.