Download or read book The Performative Dimensions of Rhetorical Questions in the Hebrew Bible written by Jim W. Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to describe the multi-dimensional nature and function of rhetorical questions in the Old Testament. Biblical scholars have previously analyzed the use of rhetorical questions in both Testaments, but consistently describe their function in persuasive terms. While this understanding is appropriate in a number of instances, many rhetorical questions do not operate this way, and Jim W. Adams focuses in particular on rhetoric expressing the self-involvement of both the speaker and hearer. Among linguistic philosophers, speech act theory has illuminated the fact that uttering a sentence does not merely convey information; it may also involve the performing of an action. The concept of communicative action provides additional tools to the exegetical process as it points the interpreter beyond the assumption that the use of language is merely for descriptive purposes. Language can also have performative and self-involving dimensions. In relation to speech act theory, linguistic specialists continue to research the nature of rhetorical questions.
Download or read book Asking for Rhetoric written by Kenneth Craig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a question? Kenneth Craig poses this query in the introductory chapter of his innovative study on the function of interrogatives in the Hebrew Bible. He describes a question as “a special literary phenomenon. A question is an opening that seeks to be closed, and its rhetorical play derives from how it disposes its energies: how it invites opening, how it imposes closure” (p. 2). Carefully analyzing texts from Genesis, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, Haggai and Zechariah, Craig demonstrates the nuanced and multifaceted ways in which the Hebrew Bible’s interrogatives function to advance the Bible’s literary and ideological goals.
Download or read book Fictive questions in the Zhuangzi written by Mingjian Xiang and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric is intimately related to interaction and cognition. This book explores the cognitive underpinnings of rhetoric by presenting a case study of the rhetorical use of interactional structures, namely expository questions and rhetorical questions, in the classical Chinese tradition. Such questions are generally meant to evoke silent answers in the addressee’s mind, thereby involving a fictive type of interaction. The book analyzes fictive questions as intersubjective mixed viewpoint constructions, involving a viewpoint blend of the perspectives of the writer, the assumed prospective readers, and possibly also that of the discourse characters. The analysis further shows that in addition to attention, other late developing human capacities such as mental simulation and perspective taking also have a pivotal role to play in rhetoric, on the basis of which a simulation-based rhetorical model of persuasion is proposed to account for meaning construction in rhetorical practices. The book will influence our understanding of rhetorical practices outside the Western tradition but within the framework of cognitive semantics.
Download or read book Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in The Hebrew Bible written by L.J. de Regt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of text structures has been a dominant feature in Biblical studies for quite some time. More recently, scholars have focused on rhetorical strategies that have been employed in Biblical texts. In this volume, rhetorical as well as structural approaches to the Hebrew Bible have been brought together. It contains studies on a range of topics and on a good many texts and textual corpuses. Interpretation culminates in translation. The contributors to this volume have discussed the implications of their findings for Bible translators. Many of these translational implications have been put together in an epilogue. The volume thus not only intends to show the present state of our knowledge of literary and rhetorical techniques employed in the Bible; on these points it aims to be a selective guide to translators as well. The volume has been edited by Lenart de Regt, Jan de Waard (both of the Free University of Amsterdam), and Jan Fokkelman (Leiden University).
Download or read book Asking for Rhetoric written by Kenneth M. Craig and published by Biblical Interpretation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig provides fresh insight into the literary and rhetorical features of the many question forms that appear in the Hebrew Bible. Particularly attention is given to question clusters in Genesis, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, Haggai and Zechariah.
Download or read book Prophets Performance and Power written by William Doan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes performance modes of thought imbedded in the prophetic literature through performance analysis.
Download or read book The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40 55 written by Jim W. Adams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents the basic philosophical concepts of speech act theory in order to accurately implement them alongside other interpretive tools.
Download or read book Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation written by Dale Patrick and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing and Reading War written by Brad E. Kelle and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2008 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of war: definitions for the study of war in ancient Israelite literature / Frank Ritchel Ames -- Concepts of war in the Hebrew Bible: a plaidoyer for book-oriented study / Jacob L. Wright -- Fighting in writing: warfare in histories of ancient Israel / Megan Bishop Moore -- Assyrian military practices and Deuteronomy's laws of warfare / Michael G. Hasel -- Siege warfare imagery and the background of a biblical curse / Jeremy D. Smoak -- Wartime rhetoric: prophetic metaphorization of cities as female / Brad E. Kelle -- Family metaphors and social conflict in Hosea / Alice A. Keefe -- "We have seen the enemy, and he is only a 'she'": the portrayal of warriors as women / Claudia D. Bergmann -- Conquest reconfigured: recasting warfare in the redaction of Joshua / Daniel Hawk -- "Go back by the way you came": an internal textual critique of Elijah's violence in 1 Kings 18-19 / Frances Flannery -- Shifts in Israelite war ethics and early Jewish historiography of plundering / Brian Kvasnica -- Gideon at Thermopylae?: on the militarization of miracle in biblical narrative and "battle maps" / Daniel l. Smith-Christopher.
Download or read book Rhetorical Questions in Ugaritic and Biblical Hebrew written by Moshe HELD and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Artistic Dimension written by Keith Bodner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of essays aimed at further integration of literary analysis in the study of the Hebrew Bible. In three sections, Bodner studies a range of texts in order to illustrate that literary analysis has value for exploring numerous issues in the discipline, including text-critical problems, the Deuteronomistic History, and Chronicles. Beginning with a discussion of how literary analysis is a vital, yet neglected, component of textual criticism, Bodner then offers a sustained engagement with one particular section of the Hebrew Bible, the so-called "ark narrative" of 1 Samuel 4-6. Other areas of the Hebrew Bible are subsequently explored, including a sample of the historiographic material in the Deuteronomistic History and a lengthy text from the book of Proverbs. Part four turns to the often neglected books of 1 & 2 Chronicles, illustrating how the Chronicler's work is a congenial site for literary study. The assembled essays petition for a heightened awareness of the artistic achievement of the Hebrew Bible and illustrate that literary thinking is a necessary component for biblical interpretation.
Download or read book Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus written by James W. Watts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus uses rhetorical analysis to expose the motives behind the writing of the central book of the Torah/Pentateuch and its persuasive function in ancient Judaism. The answer to the question, 'who was trying to persuade whom of what by writing these texts?' proves to be quite consistent throughout Leviticus 1-16: Aaronide high priests and their supporters used this book to legitimize their monopoly over the ritual offerings of Jews and Samaritans. With this priestly rhetoric at its center, the Torah supported the rise to power of two priestly dynasties in Second Temple Judaism. Their ascendancy in turn elevated the prestige and rhetorical power to the book, making it the first real scripture in Near Eastern and Western religious traditions.
Download or read book Literary Studies in the Hebrew Bible written by Shemaryahu Talmon and published by Brill. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the studies collected in this volume, the author aims at highlighting salient literary modes which can be identified in the books of the Hebrew Bible. The application of such modes is illustrated by analysing the biblical writers' technique of underscoring the concurrency of events by splitting a narrative account, intersplicing it with a second account, and then resuming the first. Thus they steer clear of conveying the impression of a chronological succession of the events in question which would be unavoidable in a one-line sequential presentation." "A reinvestigation of the question whether biblical literature ever knew a 'national epic' culminates in the conclusion that ancient Israel rejected this Gattung because of its intrinsic affiliation with pagan cults. In its stead it developed the genre of the 'historiographical psalm'. In a group of studies, identifiable literary traits are brought to bear on the investigation of principles and problems relating to the 'comparative approach' in biblical exegesis. Initial methodological considerations are illustrated by their application to the analysis of aspects pertaining to the spheres of religion and myth, such as 'divine kingship', 'navel of the earth', and 'repha'im/rpu(i)m', and to social and political phenomena, such as 'nomadism', 'desert ideal', and 'democratic' institutions." "In a concluding analysis, the book of Esther, is shown to be woven around a literary core which narratively illuminates the applicability of proverbial wisdom teachings to the handling of actual life situations." "These essays will be of interest to scholars and students of the Bible, theology, sociology of religion, and comparative literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Method Matters written by David L. Petersen and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2009 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the field of biblical studies expands to accommodate new modes of inquiry, scholars are increasingly aware of the need for methodological clarity. David L. Petersens teaching, research, and service to the guild are marked by a commitment to such clarity. Thus, in honor of Petersens work, a cohort of distinguished colleagues presents this volume as an authoritative and up-to-date handbook of methods in Hebrew Bible scholarship. Readers will find focused discussions of traditional and newly emerging methods, including historical criticism, ideological criticism, and literary criticism, as well as numerous case studies that indicate how these approaches work and what insights they yield. Additionally, several essays provide a broad overview of the field by reflecting on the larger intellectual currents that have generated and guided contemporary biblical scholarship.The contributors are Yairah Amit, Pablo R. Andiach, Alan J. Avery-Peck, John Barton, Bruce C. Birch, Susan Brayford, William P. Brown, Walter Brueggemann, Mark K. George, William K. Gilders, John H. Hayes, Christopher B. Hays, Ralph W. Klein, Douglas A. Knight, Beatrice Lawrence, Joel M. LeMon, Christoph Levin, James Luther Mays, Dean McBride, Carol A. Newsom, Kirsten Nielsen, Martti Nissinen, Gail R. ODay, Thomas Rmer, C. L. Seow, Naomi Steinberg, Brent A. Strawn, Marvin A. Sweeney, Gene M. Tucker, and Robert R. Wilson.
Download or read book The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible written by J. Cheryl Exum and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This highly original volume illustrates what has been happening in the past two decades in Hebrew Bible studies under the influence of developments in literary theory. The methods and practice of reader-response criticism and deconstruction as well as feminist, materialist, and psychoanalytic approaches are all represented here by leading international Hebrew Bible literary critics." "The distinctive and eclectic studies of particular texts introduce students and scholars to exciting new dimensions of biblical study."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Rhetorical Composition and Function of Hebrews 11 written by Michael R. Cosby and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Revelation in the Hebrew Bible written by Dale Patrick and published by Overtures to Biblical Theology. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh approach to Israel's understanding of how God communicates.
