Pauline Persuasion (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781841271491)

This is a book about the use of classical rhetoric in reading Paul. It begins with a useful review of the various strategies, and, in the light of the issues that emerge, it describes a rhetorical method which is then tested on 2 Corinthians 8-9. Here, the advice of the classical rhetorical manuals for constructing a text is used-in reverse order-so as to uncover the persuasive strategy being used by Paul in this case. This technique leads to a quite new reading of the two chapters, which O'Mahony then proceeds to test against the standard work in the field by Hans Dieter Betz.

Author: Kieran O'Mahony
ISBN-10: 1841271497
ISBN-13: 9781841271491
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.20w x 0.64d