What's in the Word
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What's in the Word

Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament

  1. 203 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

What's in the Word

Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament

About this book

Written in clear, and at times colorful, prose, Ben Witherington's What's in the Word explains how the recognition of the oral and socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament and its environment necessitates a change in how the New Testament literature is read. Expanding on the work in which he has been fruitfully engaged for over a quarter century, Witherington challenges the previously assured results of historical criticism and demonstrates chapter by chapter how the socio-rhetorical study shifts the paradigm.

Taken together, the chapters in What's in the Word coalesce around three of Witherington's ongoing academic concerns: orality and rhetoric; New Testament history, including issues of authenticity and canonicity; and the exegesis of given words in their canonical and socio-cultural contexts. Always unpredictable, this book never fails to pique interest and proffer instruction.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Invitation to the Dance
  5. 1. Oral Examination: How Did “Oral” Texts Function in a Rhetorical Culture?
  6. 2. Canonical Pseudepigrapha: Is It an Oxymoron?
  7. 3. Rethinking and Redescribing Scribal Culture
  8. 4. The Question of Sermons and Homilies in the New Testament
  9. 5. Romans 7:7-25: Retelling Adam’s Tale
  10. 6. What’s in a Name?: Rethinking the Historical Figure of the Beloved Disciple in the Fourth Gospel
  11. 7. What’s in a Word?: Part One—Eidolothuton
  12. 8. What’s in a Word?: Part Two—Porneia
  13. 9. What’s in a Phrase?: “No Male and Female” (Galatians 3:28)
  14. 10. “Christianity in the Making”: Oral Mystery or Eyewitness History?
  15. 11. The Rise of Canon Consciousness and the Formationof the New Testament
  16. 12. Signposts along the Way: On Taking the Less-Traveled Path
  17. Notes
  18. Scripture Index
  19. Index of Subjects and Authors