Archive for the ‘Rhetorical studies’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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, ...
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