What’s in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament (Biblia.com)

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Written in clear, and at times colorful, prose, Ben Witherington’s What’s in the Word explains how the recognition of the oral and socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament and its environment necessitates a change in how the New Testament literature is read. Expanding on the work in which he has been fruitfully engaged for over a quarter century, Witherington challenges the previously...

but of course no listener would ever have considered it a letter on first hearing, because there were no signals at the outset of the document to suggest such a thing. And in an oral culture, opening signals are everything if the issue is to identify what sort of discourse or document the audience is listening to. This is why Luke 1:1–4 is so crucial to judging the genre of that Gospel. Given that the distinction between a speech and an orally performed text was more like a thin veil than a thick

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