Rhetoric and Hermeneutics

Approaches to Text, Tradition and Social Construction in Biblical and Second Temple Literature

by Carol A. Newsom

Book cover: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics

Extent: 382 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament

Series volume number: 130

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2019)

ISBN: 9783161577239

Price: $218.00

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This collection of essays by Carol A. Newsom explores the indispensable role that rhetoric and hermeneutics play in the production and reception of biblical and Second Temple literature. Some of the essays are methodological and programmatic, while others provide extended case studies. Because rhetoric is, as Kenneth Burke put it, “a strategy for encompassing a situation,” the analysis of rhetoric illumines the ways in which texts engage particular historical moments, shape and reshape communities, and even construct new models of self and agency. The essays in this book not only explore how ancient texts hermeneutically engage existing traditions but also how they themselves have become the objects of hermeneutical transformation in contexts ranging from ancient sectarian Judaism to the politics of post-World War I and II Germany and America to modern film criticism and feminist re-reading.

  • By (author) Carol A Newsom