Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja by Tallmon, Jim

Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498293983)

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Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja by Tallmon, Jim

Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja

$43.00
Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja by Tallmon, Jim

Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja

$43.00
Format: Hardcover
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Paul obtains a thirty-day leave from house arrest in Rome to "attend to business in Spain," but must promise to return for sentencing. He plans a "mission blitz" of Hispania. But the plan changes when, in the provincial capital, Paul meets Quintilian, a young pleader who invites him to his family's estate up the Rio Iberus, in La Rioja, outside Calagurris (Calahorra). Paul accompanies Quintilian to Calagurris, along with Luke. Zenas, the other member of "Mission Team Beta," remains in Caesaraugusta to establish in the faith three new converts, one of whom is Quintilian's clerk. Their talk, rendered as Platonic dialogue, ranges across rhetorical theory, ethics, pedagogy, Christianity, and Paul's latest manuscript, which he hopes will be received as his magnum opus. The novel explores fictional competition between Paul and Apollos, Quintilian's personal crisis, a result of actual, devastating personal losses, resolved when, years after Paul has died by Nero's decree, a much older Quintilian finds comfort in the words of Paul's letter to his kinsmen, the Hebrews, words which Quintilian had discussed with Paul during that memorable occasion at the family's estate in La Rioja.

Author: Jim Tallmon
ISBN-10: 1498293980
ISBN-13: 9781498293983
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2017
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
By Jim Tallmon
By Jim Tallmon
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Jim Tallmon earned his doctorate in rhetoric and ethics from the University of Washington. He spent most of his career teaching at the collegiate level, but most recently served as headmaster and taught grades seven and eight at a Classical Lutheran School in Wyoming. Tallmon is now semi-retired and writing daily in Austin, Texas with his lovely bride, Bonnie.

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