By Stanley E. Porter, Thomas H. Olbricht
Rhetoric, Scripture and Theology aptly describe the contents of this choice of essays from the 1994 Pretoria Rhetoric convention. The convention marked an important discussion between students collected from many countries to contemplate how rhetoric engages with the examine of scripture and theology. South Africa supplied an appropriate context for such dialogue. even if the participants usually are not purely from South Africa, the addressing of concerns pertinent to a South African context exhibits via in lots of of the essays. those who don't handle rather South African matters bring up both vital matters concerning the subject of rhetoric and its relation to modern theological discourse.
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A. Castelli, Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991). 33. C. Wire, The Corinthian Women Prophets: A Reconstruction through Paul's Rhetoric (Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress, 1990). 34 If feminist criticism is mentioned in the self-portraying narratives of the discipline at all, the tendency seems to be to reduce it to 'literary criticism' and then to contain it within 'ideological criticism' rather than to credit feminist biblical criticism with having developed a complex critical rhetorical model of inquiry and biblical interpretation that does not restrict itself to ideological criticism.
M. B. Mohr, 1991), pp. 1-19. 11. For the tension between 'science' and 'rhetoric' as two different modes of thinking, see S. Fish, 'Rhetoric', in F. Lentricchia and T. ), Critical Terms for Literary Study (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), pp. 202-22. SCHUSSLER FIORENZA Challenging the Rhetorical Half-Turn 33 is one of the few Christian Testament studies that attempt to take rhetorical and feminist theoretical insights seriously. My discussion of his method in action seeks to illustrate how even a socio-rhetorical analysis that is aware of gender studies in the end resorts to a positivist socialscientific approach in order to validate its interpretation in terms of the logic of identity as the best reading and 'reliable scientific' interpretation.
35-50; The Rhetoricity of Historical Knowledge: Pauline Discourse and its Contextualizations', in L. D. Tredici and A. ), Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in the New Testament World: Essays Honoring Dieter Georgi (Leiden: Brill, 1994), pp. 443-70. 31. P. Trible, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978); Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984). For her response to this work, see her new book Rhetorical Criticism (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994).