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Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah is unavailable, but you can change that!

Phyllis Trible examines rhetorical criticism as a discipline within biblical studies. In Part One, she surveys the historical antecedents of the method from ancient times to the postmodern era: classical rhetoric, literary critical theory, literary study of the Bible, and form criticism. Trible then presents samples of rhetorical analysis as the art of composition and as the art of persuasion. ...

To introduce biblical rhetorical criticism1 this chapter, like the first, employs the classical faculties of invention and arrangement. Gathering materials for the occasion (inventio), it orders them (dispositio). The particular order is a chiasm.2 Section A reports on the Muilenburg program; section B examines rhetoric as the art of composition; section B′ examines rhetoric as the art of persuasion; section A′ evaluates the Muilenburg legacy.
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