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What's in the Word : rethinking the socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament / Ben Witherington III.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009.Description: viii, 195 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781602581968 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1602581967 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 225.6 WIT W
LOC classification:
  • BS2380 .W58 2009
Contents:
Invitation to the dance -- Oral examination : how did "oral" texts function in a rhetorical culture? -- Canonical pseudepigrapha : is it an oxymoron? -- Rethinking and redescribing scribal culture -- The question of sermons and homilies in the New Testament -- Romans 7:7-25 : retelling Adam's tale -- What's in a name? : rethinking the historical figure of the beloved disciple in the Fourth Gospel -- What's in a word? part one : eidolothuton -- What's in a word? part two : porneia -- What's in a phrase? : "no male and female" (Galatians 3:28) -- "Christianity in the making" : oral mystery or eyewitness history? -- The rise of canon consciousness and the formation of the New Testament -- Signposts along the way : on taking the less-traveled path.
Summary: 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. 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. --From publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Invitation to the dance -- Oral examination : how did "oral" texts function in a rhetorical culture? -- Canonical pseudepigrapha : is it an oxymoron? -- Rethinking and redescribing scribal culture -- The question of sermons and homilies in the New Testament -- Romans 7:7-25 : retelling Adam's tale -- What's in a name? : rethinking the historical figure of the beloved disciple in the Fourth Gospel -- What's in a word? part one : eidolothuton -- What's in a word? part two : porneia -- What's in a phrase? : "no male and female" (Galatians 3:28) -- "Christianity in the making" : oral mystery or eyewitness history? -- The rise of canon consciousness and the formation of the New Testament -- Signposts along the way : on taking the less-traveled path.

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. 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. --From publisher's description.

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