The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
List of abbreviations......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
THE CHALLENGE OF SOCIO-RHETORICAL CRITICISM......Page 16
The relation of Christianity to culture......Page 19
The relation of texts to society, culture and history......Page 21
The relation of New Testament interpretation to theology......Page 25
The relation of disciplinary methods to an interpretive analytics......Page 26
Conclusion......Page 28
REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES WITH SOCIO-RHETORICAL CRITICISM......Page 33
The interpreter\'s location and ideology......Page 39
Inner texture......Page 42
Intertexture......Page 45
Social and cultural texture......Page 48
Ideological texture......Page 51
Conclusion......Page 55
INNER TEXTURE: EVERY READING HAS A SUBTEXT......Page 59
Repetitive-progressive texture......Page 61
Opening-middle-closing texture......Page 65
Narrational texture......Page 68
Argumentative texture......Page 73
Sensory-aesthetic texture......Page 79
Inner texture in 1 Corinthians 9......Page 80
Conclusion......Page 106
INTERTEXTURE: EVERY COMPARISON HAS BOUNDARIES......Page 111
Oral-scribal intertexture......Page 112
Cultural intertexure......Page 123
Social intertexture......Page 130
Historical intertexture......Page 133
Intertexture in 1 Corinthians 9......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 158
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TEXTURE: EVERY MEANING HAS A CONTEXT......Page 159
Specific social topics in religious literature......Page 162
Common social and cultural topics......Page 174
Final cultural categories......Page 182
Summary......Page 189
Social and cultural texture in 1 Corinthians 9......Page 191
Conclusion......Page 204
IDEOLOGICAL TEXTURE: EVERY THEOLOGY HAS A POLITICS......Page 207
Ideology in texts......Page 208
Ideology in authoritative traditions of interpretation......Page 215
Ideology in intellectual discourse......Page 222
Ideology in individuals and groups......Page 230
Ideological texture in 1 Corinthians 9......Page 235
Conclusion......Page 250
THE PROMISE OF SOCIO-RHETORICAL CRITICISM......Page 252
Multiple textures in texts......Page 253
Rewriting the historiography of first-century Christianity......Page 255
Socio-rhetorical criticism and other fields of study......Page 258
Bibliography......Page 260
Index of scriptures and ancient texts......Page 281
Index of modern authors......Page 286
Index of subjects......Page 289