Archive for the ‘Rhetorical studies’ Category

DeSilva, Strategic Arousal - currently freely available

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

David A. DeSilva. "The Strategic Arousal of Emotions in the Apocalypse of John: A Rhetorical-Critical Investigation of the Oracles to the Seven Churches." New Testament Studies 54 (2008): 90-114. Currently freely available online here in a pdf version. Here is the abstract: Heuristic use of classical rhetorical theorists' discussion of appeals to ...

Carey, Elusive Apocalypse

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Carey, Greg: Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John. (Studies in Biblical Hermeneutics, 15). Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999. xiv + 209 pp.Employing not only the rhetorical notion of authorial ethos, but postcolonial and resistance criticism, this book, a (probably revised) edition of ...

Moyise (ed.), Studies

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Moyise, Steve (ed.) Studies in the Book of Revelation. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2001. xvii + 206 pp. ISBN: 0567088146 (hb.), 0567088049 (pbk.).Essays included:The Words of Prophecy: Reading the Apocalypse Theologically, by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (pp. 1-20)Seventh-Day Adventism: Self-Appointed Laodicea, by Robert Surridge (pp. 21-42)The Enthroned Christ of Revelation 5:6 and ...

Barr (ed.), Reality of Apocalypse

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Barr, David Lawrence (ed.) The Reality of Apocalypse: Rhetoric and Politics in the Book of Revelation. Society of Biblical Literature symposium series, 39. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006. ix + 306 pp. RRP £19.22Barr, who headed the Seminar on the Apocalypse: The Intersection of Literary and Social Methos, has selected a ...

Remarks on rhetorical studies

Monday, August 27th, 2007

This topic refers to various studies which, while analysing various aspects of Revelation, employ ancient or modern rhetorical theory.As with alle the other topics, suggestions or contributions are welcome.

Johns, Lamb Christology (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Johns, Loren L. The Origins and Rhetorical Force of the Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John. Bluffton College. Dissertation Adviser: Dr. James H. Charlesworth. Date of defence: 13 Feb 1998.An investigation of the origins and rhetorical force of the lamb imagery in the Apocalypse of John. Chapter one introduces ...

Carey, Attention-Seeking Behaviour (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Carey, William Gregory. Attention-Seeking Behavior: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Authority in the Book of Revelation. Dissertation under the direction of Professor Fernando F. Segovia. Vanderbilt University, 1996.Authority represents a fundamental dimension of the Book of Revelation, which resists the Roman Empire of the late first century and those Jews, Christians, ...