Sea voyages and beyond
Subtitle: emerging strategies in socio-rhetorical interpretation
By: Vernon K. Robbins
Series: Emory studies in early Christianity -- 14; Emory studies in early Christianity -- vol. 14.
Publisher: Deo Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Blanford Forum, Dorset
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781905679133
Subjects: Bible; Bibelhermeneutik; Rhetoric in the Bible; Christianity and culture; Socio-rhetorical criticism of sacred works; Literatur; Bibel; Early church; Socio-rhetorical criticism; History; Rhetorik; Frühchristentum
Description: "These stimulating and significant essays by Vernon K. Robbins, introduced by David B. Gowler, together offer a seminal basis and point of reference for scholarly analysis of early Christian and New Testament rhetoric"--Bookseller's website.
Notes: Collection of previously published essays.

Includes bibliography of "The major writings of Vernon K. Robbins" (p. [385]-392).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The end of the beginning: the continuing maturation of socio-rhetorical analysis  -- David B. Gowler; title: By land and by sea: the we-passages and ancient sea voyages --; title: Sailing with Paul on ideological waters: the we-voyages in Acts --; title: The social location of the implied author of Luke-Acts --; title: Rhetoric and culture: Mark 4-11 as a test case --; title: Social-scientific criticism and literary studies: prospects for cooperation in Biblical interpretation --; title: Picking up the fragments: from Crossan's analysis to rhetorical analysis --; title: Writing as a rhetorical act in Plutarch and the Gospels --; title: The reversed contextualization of Psalm 22 in the Markan crucifixion: a socio-rhetorical analysis --; title: Socio-rhetorical criticism: Mary, Elizabeth, and the magnificat as a test case --; title: The present and future of rhetorical analysis --; title: From Enthymeme to theology in Luke 11:1-13 --; title: The socio-rhetorical role of Old Testament scripture in Luke 4-19.