Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
Approaches to Text, Tradition and Social Construction in Biblical and Second Temple Literature
by Carol A. Newsom
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
Other Titles in this Series
Reading Prophetic Books
Form, Intertextuality, and Reception in Prophetic and Post-Biblical Literature
Volume 89
From the Reed Sea to Kadesh
A Redactional and Socio-Historical Study of the Pentateuchal Wilderness Narrative
Volume 159
Identitatsstiftende Begegnung
Die theologische Deutung des regelmassigen Kultes Israels in der Tora
Volume 121
Gott in Bewegung
Religions- und theologiegeschichtliche Beitrage zu Gottesvorstellungen im alten Israel
Volume 76
Sunde und Vergebung
Eine Rekonstruktion der Redaktionsgeschichte der hinteren Sinaiperikope (Exodus 32-34) vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Pentateuchmodelle
Volume 58
Scribal Laws
Exegetical Variation in the Textual Transmission of Biblical Law in the Late Second Temple Period
Volume 92
Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology
Essays in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney
Volume 160
Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I
The Literary Transitions Between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges
Volume 120
Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuchs
Gesammelte Studien zu Ben Sira und zur fruhjudischen Weisheit
Volume 98
Gott in Bewegung
Religions- und theologiegeschichtliche Beitrage zu Gottesvorstellungen im alten Israel
Volume 76
Wie JHWH spricht
Die temporelle Steuerung von Verbalaussagen in den Reden nach den Gottesspruchformeln
Economics in Persian-Period Biblical Texts
Their Interactions with Economic Developments in the Persian Period and Earlier Biblical Traditions
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