Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible
A Comprehensive Bibliography with Notes on History and Method
Biographical note
Duane F. Watson, Ph.D. (1986) in New Testament, Duke University, is Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at Malone College. He is author of Invention, Arrangement, and Style, editor of Persuasive Artistry, and numerous articles on the rhetoric of the New Testament.
Alan J. Hauser, Ph.D. (1972) in Religion from the School of Religion, University of Iowa, is Professor of Biblical Studies at Appalachian State University. He is editor of Currents in Research: Biblical Studies and has published From Carmel to Horeb: Elijah in Crisis (1990) and numerous articles in Old Testament Studies.
Alan J. Hauser, Ph.D. (1972) in Religion from the School of Religion, University of Iowa, is Professor of Biblical Studies at Appalachian State University. He is editor of Currents in Research: Biblical Studies and has published From Carmel to Horeb: Elijah in Crisis (1990) and numerous articles in Old Testament Studies.
Readership
All biblical scholars, especially those interested in rhetorical criticism and literary approaches to the Bible, classicists, those interested in the discipline of rhetoric, and academic libraries for reference collections.
Reviews
'A resource for using rhetorical criticism as a methodology for interpreting the literary character of the Bible...'
Reference and Research Book News, 1994.
'...this is a very valuable compilation of material.'
SEP, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1994.
'...the bibliographies compiled by Watson and Hauser are not only timely but also should prove extremely valuable to both OT and NT scholars.'
John T. Fitzgerald, Religious Studies Review, 1995.
Reference and Research Book News, 1994.
'...this is a very valuable compilation of material.'
SEP, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1994.
'...the bibliographies compiled by Watson and Hauser are not only timely but also should prove extremely valuable to both OT and NT scholars.'
John T. Fitzgerald, Religious Studies Review, 1995.
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The question ‘Which is the real Jesus’ is approached from different perspectives, illustrating the role the quest for the historical Jesus plays within a wider framework, including not only historical, but also philosophical and hermeneutical issues.
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Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Epistle of James offers an interpretation of Jas 2:1-13 putting the text in the midst of its Roman imperial context.
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In Revelation 21-22 in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Utopianism, Eric J. Gilchrest offers a creative and compelling reading of Revelation 21-22 as understood through the lenses of ancient Greco-Roman and Jewish utopianism.
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Ancient Jewish Interpreters read and rewrote the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel to address various challenges to the identity of 'Israel' in the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods.
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Die Darstellung der erzählten Welten im Richterbuch zeigt anhand einer narratologische Analyse der einzelnen Erzählzyklen wie die (Re)konstruktion einer Epoche Israels in einem vielstimmigen Diskurs zwischen Bewunderung und Befremden entfaltet wird.
The analysis of the narrated worlds in the ...
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In The Questions of Jesus in John Douglas Estes crafts a theory of question-asking based on insights from ancient rhetoric and modern linguistics in order to investigate the logical and rhetorical purposes of Jesus' questions in the Fourth Gospel.
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In Prayer in the Gospels Mathias Nygaard offers a text-centred reading of the prayer materials of the Gospels. His approach provides for exegesis and theology in a single discussion.
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In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham examines the perspectives on creation presented by Job’s characters and explores the challenges to their certainties about creative agency and power raised by its epilogue.
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Drawing on the Polanyian categories of reciprocity, redistribution and market trade, this book examines the exchange narratives within 1 and 2 Kings in an effort to clarify the nature of the economic structures behind the biblical text.
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Multiple and sometimes unexpected forms of closure in biblical narratives bring their stories to satisfactory close. Knowledge of these conventions and how they affect their stories is valuable to students of Bible and of narrative.
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