Rhetoric and Galatians: Assessing an Approach to Paul's Epistle (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 13
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 17
Universal rhetoric or strategic communication......Page 23
Oratory......Page 24
Graeco-Roman rhetoric......Page 25
Graeco-Roman handbook rhetoric......Page 28
Species......Page 50
Taxis (Latin: Dispositio)......Page 52
Topoi (Latin: Topica)......Page 53
Sources......Page 55
Prehistory......Page 59
History of use in Galatians......Page 68
Conformity to Graeco-Roman rhetoric......Page 72
Handbooks interpret figures found anywhere......Page 76
All literature is rhetorical......Page 82
Goals and analytical questions......Page 85
Readings of Galatians......Page 96
Kennedy: an explicit method......Page 102
Longenecker: merging of methods......Page 104
4 RHETORICAL STRUCTURE AND GALATIANS......Page 106
Galatians 1–2......Page 108
The exordium......Page 109
The narratio......Page 115
The propositio......Page 121
Galatians 3–4......Page 125
Galatians 5–6......Page 128
Conclusion......Page 134
5 RHETORICAL SPECIES AND GALATIANS......Page 136
The limits of deliberative rhetoric......Page 141
The limits of epideictic rhetoric......Page 142
The limits of rhetoric and Galatians......Page 145
Galatians as a forensic speech......Page 147
Galatians as deliberative rhetoric......Page 152
Subsequent solutions to the question of species......Page 172
Galatians as mixed rhetoric......Page 173
Galatians as epideictic rhetoric......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 180
6 THE LANGUAGE OF PAUL\'S LETTERS: 1. AS EVALUATED BY EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITERS......Page 183
The church fathers......Page 185
Greek fathers......Page 186
Latin fathers......Page 197
Other early Christians......Page 212
Post-patristic ‘rhetoricians’......Page 214
Conclusion......Page 219
Acts 24: a courtroom analogy......Page 220
Orientation to Paul\'s background......Page 226
The level of Paul\'s language......Page 231
Philologists found Paul to be a lesser writer......Page 232
The charge of being uneducated......Page 233
Alternative explanations of Paul\'s language......Page 246
Excursus: the activities of the orator......Page 261
Language levels were steeply graduated......Page 263
Paul\'s mode of discourse......Page 265
Conclusions......Page 270
8 CONCLUSIONS......Page 272
Summary......Page 274
Implications and significance......Page 275
Further study......Page 276
Ancient sources......Page 278
General bibliography......Page 280
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 313
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 318