1st Edition
The Bible as Rhetoric Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility
Notes on the Contributors Biblical Translations Introduction Martin Warner Prologue 1. The Bible and the rhetorical sublime Lynn Poland Part I: Old Testament and Apocrypha 2. History and rhetoric in the prophets John Barton 3. Deconstructing the Book of Job David Clines 4. Biblical story and the heroine Margarita Stocker Part II: New Testament 5. History, truth, and narrative Stewart Sutherland 6. ‘Tales artfully spun’ Roger Trigg 7. ‘In the sermon which I have just completed, wherever I said Aristotle, I meant Saint Paul’ David Jasper 8. The Fourth Gospel’s art of rational persuasion Martin Warner 9. The World could not contain the books Michael Edwards 10. ‘Truth’ and ‘rhetoric’ in the Pauline Epistles George Kennedy Epilogue 11. The language of ecstasy and the ecstasy of language Cyril Barrett Bibliography Index of Biblical References General Index
Biography
Martin Warner teaches philosophy at the University of Warwick and was the founding Programme Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature.
Reviews of the original publication:
“In this interdisciplinary collection, philosophers, literary critiques, biblical scholars, theologians, and historians of ideas explore from their various perspectives ‘the ways in which the persuasive (and related literary) procedures of the biblical writers cut across or reinforce their concern with truth’…. The essays share a conviction that rhetorical criticism helps clarify the complex interrelated issues that arise when the Christian Bible is read as literature and as scripture. They do not represent a shared theological stance nor a common philosophical position towards truth claims.”
-Phyllis H. Kaminski, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts; Detroit, Mich. Vol. 34, Iss. 3, (Summer 1992)
