What's in the Word : [manuscript] : rethinking the socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament /

Witherington, Ben., III, 1951-

What's in the Word : rethinking the socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament / [manuscript] : Ben Witherington III. - Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009. - viii, 195 p. ; 23 cm.

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-travelled path.

9781602581968 (pbk. : alk. paper) : Đ7.00 1602581967 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009003944

GBA970997 bnb GBA982996 bnb

015330500 Uk 015353206 Uk


Bible.--New Testament--Socio-rhetorical criticism.

BS2380 / .W58 2009

225.6