Wachob, Wesley Hiram.

The Voice of Jesus in the Social Rhetoric of James. - 1 online resource (267 pages) - Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series ; v.106 . - Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series .

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- The Epistle of James and rhetoric -- The overlap between letters and rhetoric -- James as rhetorical discourse -- James' allusions to sayings of Jesus and rhetorical theory -- James' rhetorical discourse and its social function -- The present investigation -- 2 THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH AND THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION -- Introduction -- The Epistle of James as a problem -- James as a historical problem -- James as a theological problem -- James as a literary problem -- Martin Dibelius and the present situation in Jamesian research -- Paraenesis and kerygma: a theological problem -- Paraenesis and literature: a literary problem -- Paraenesis: a literary genre or mode of persuasion?: a historical problem -- The return to rhetoric -- 3 THE INNER TEXTURE OF JAMES 2.1-13 -- Introduction -- The pattern of argumentation -- The text -- The analysis -- The text -- The analysis -- The text -- The analysis -- The text -- The analysis -- The text -- The analysis -- Conclusions -- 4 THE INTERTEXTURE OF JAMES 2.1-13 -- Introduction -- An intertextual analysis of James 2.1-13 -- Conclusions -- 5 THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TEXTURE OF JAMES 2.1-13 -- Introduction -- The rhetorical situation -- The rhetorical exigence -- The rhetorical audience -- Excursus. Christian Jews in the dispersion -- The rhetorical constraints -- The question and stasis of the unit, and its species of rhetoric -- The question and stasis of the unit -- The species of rhetoric in the unit -- The social and cultural rhetoric of the unit -- The cultural scripts of honor, limited good, and patron-client relations -- The social nature of the rhetoric in the unit -- The cultural nature of the rhetoric in the unit -- 6 CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX OF SOURCES AND AUTHORS -- Ancient authors -- Modern Authors -- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES -- Old Testament and Apocrypha -- New Testament -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

A study of the social rhetoric of the Epistle of James.

9780511156397


Bible.--N.T.--James II, 1-13--Socio-rhetorical criticism.


Electronic books.

BS2785.2 .W33 2000

227.91066

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