Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

Alternate Labels

Rhetorical Criticism

Web Links

Rhetorical Criticism of the Hebrew Bible | Michael D. Morrison

Key Passages

Reading List

Logos resources

Dennis L. Stamps, “Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament: Ancient and Modern Evaluations of Argumentation” | Approaches to New Testament Study edited by Stanley E. Porter and David Tombs
Art and Meaning: Rhetoric in Biblical Literature | Edited by David J. A. Clines, David M. Gunn and Alan J. Hauser
Rhetorical Criticism | Biblical Hermeneutics: A Comprehensive Introduction to Interpreting Scripture (2nd Ed.)
Rhetorical Criticism | Biblical Interpretation: An Integrated Approach
Methods vs. approaches | Catholic Principles for Interpreting Scripture: A Study of the Pontifical Commission’s The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church
A Rhetorical and Apocalyptic Rereading | The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul (also included in argument analysis)
Rhetorical Criticism | Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
Rhetorical Criticism | Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation
Rhetoric as an Important Concept in the Hellenistic Context | Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament
Rhetorical Criticism | Handbook for Biblical Interpretation: An Essential Guide to Methods, Terms, and Concepts
Rhetoric as an Important Concept in the Hellenistic Context | A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis
Excursus on Rhetorical Criticism | The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
Rhetorical Criticism | Handbook to Exegesis of the New Testament
4.3.1. Rhetorical Criticism | Hermeneutics as a Theory of Understanding
Melanchthon and the Origins of Rhetorical Criticism | A History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2: The Medieval through the Reformation Periods
Kerygmatic Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, and the Interpretation of Paul | Horizons in Hermeneutics: A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony C. Thiselton
House of God or House of David: The Rhetoric of 2 Samuel 7 | by Lyle Eslinger
Specific Rhetorical Elements in Hebrews | Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews
Rhetorical Criticism | Interpreting the New Testament: Essays on Methods and Issues
Rhetorical Criticism | Interpreting the Pauline Epistles
Rhetorical Criticism | Interpreting the Pauline Epistles
Exegetical Skill: Rhetorical Criticism (1)—Judicial Topics | An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods and Ministry Formation
Exegetical Skill: Rhetorical Criticism (2)—Appeals to “Ethos” | An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods and Ministry Formation
Exegetical Skill: Rhetorical Criticism (3)—The Analysis of Topics | An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods and Ministry Formation
Exegetical Skill: Rhetorical Criticism (4)—The Functions of Parts of an Oration | An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods and Ministry Formation
Exegetical Skill: Rhetorical Criticism (5)—Appeals to the Emotions | An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods and Ministry Formation
The Rhetorical-Hermeneutical Reading Process | The Meanings We Choose: Hermeneutical Ethics, Indeterminacy and the Conflict of Interpretations
Rhetorical Criticism | The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible
New Testament Rhetoric: An Introductory Guide to the Art of Persuasion in and of the New Testament | by Ben Witherington III
Rhetorical Criticism | On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume I
Pauline Persuasion: A Sounding in 2 Corinthians 8–9 | by Kieran J. O’Mahony
The Psalms as Christian Lament: A Historical Commentary | Bruce K. Waltke, James M. Houston, and Erika Moore (Rhetorical criticism commentary interspersed)
The Psalms as Christian Worship: A Historical Commentary | Bruce K. Waltke, James M. Houston, and Erika Moore (Rhetorical criticism commentary interspersed)
Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation | by Dale Patrick and Allen Scult
Rhetorical Analysis: An Introduction to Biblical Rhetoric | by Roland Meynet
Rhetorical Criticism and the Bible | edited by Stanley E. Porter and Dennis L. Stamps
Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah | by Phyllis Trible
Rhetorical Determinacy and the Text | Semeia 71: Textual Determinacy, Part Two

Argumentation subfield

Argument and Theology in 1 Peter: The Origins of Christian Paraenesis | Lauri Thurén (the specialized but related field of argumentation)
A Rhetorical and Apocalyptic Rereading | The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul

Oral rhetoric subfield

Oral rhetoric | Rhetorical Analysis: An Introduction to Biblical Rhetoric
Rhetoric and the Sensorium | Semeia 65: Orality and Textuality in Early Christian Literature

Bibliography outside Logos

Kennedy, G. A. New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1984.
Mack, B. L. Rhetoric and the New Testament, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.

Argumentation subfield

Wendland, Ernst R. Prophetic Rhetoric: Case Studies in Text Analysis and Translation 2nd edition. SIL International Publications (also for oral-rhetorical approach).

Oral rhetoric subfield

Harvey, John D. Listening to the Text Evangelical Theological Society

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