it focused on things done in the past. This was the type of rhetoric most frequently practiced in the NT era. We hear samplings of it in the trials of Paul in Acts. Deliberative rhetoric was the rhetoric of the “assembly”—originally the democratic assemblies in Greece—and was the rhetoric of advice and consent, trying to get one course of action or another, one policy or another voted on in an affirmative manner. The temporal focus of deliberative rhetoric was the future since change was sought in