Inventing Hebrews: Design and Purpose in Ancient Rhetoric (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, vol. 171)
Michael Wade Martin, Jason A. Whitlark
Inventing Hebrews examines a perennial topic in the study of the Letter to the Hebrews, its structure and purpose. Michael Wade Martin and Jason A. Whitlark undertake at thorough synthesis of the ancient theory of invention and arrangement, providing a new account of Hebrews' design. The key to the speech's outline, the authors argue, is in its use of 'disjointed' arrangement, a template ubiquitous in antiquity but little discussed in modern biblical studies. This method of arrangement accounts for the long-observed pattern of alternating epideictic and deliberative units in Hebrews as blocks of narratio and argumentatiorespectively. Thus the 'letter' may be seen as a conventional speech arranged according to the expectations of ancient rhetoric (exordium, narratio, argumentatio, peroratio), with epideictic comparisons of old and new covenant representatives (narratio) repeatedly enlisted in amplification of what may be viewed as the central argument of the speech (argumentatio), the recurring deliberative summons for perseverance. Resolving a long-standing conundrum, this volume offers a hermeneutical tool necessary for interpreting Hebrews, as well as countless other speeches from Greco-Roman antiquity.
Том:
171
Год:
2018
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Язык:
english
Страницы:
321
ISBN 10:
1108429467
ISBN 13:
9781108429467
Серия:
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
Файл:
PDF, 2.40 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018
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