The Bible as Rhetoric

Auteur

Martin Warner teaches philosophy at the University of Warwick and was the founding Programme Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature.

Résumé
First Published in 1990, The Bible as Rhetoric explores the ways in which the persuasive strategies employed in the biblical texts to their preoccupations with religious and historical truth.

Contenu

Notes on the Contributors Biblical Translations Introduction Prologue 1. The Bible and the rhetorical sublime Part I: Old Testament and Apocrypha 2. History and rhetoric in the prophets 3. Deconstructing the Book of Job 4. Biblical story and the heroine Part II: New Testament 5. History, truth, and narrative 6. 'Tales artfully spun' 7. 'In the sermon which I have just completed, wherever I said Aristotle, I meant Saint Paul' 8. The Fourth Gospel's art of rational persuasion 9. The World could not contain the books 10. 'Truth' and 'rhetoric' in the Pauline Epistles Epilogue 11. The language of ecstasy and the ecstasy of language Bibliography Index of Biblical References General Index