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...

like the mundane, pragmatic epistolary literature of that era. In terms of both structure and content, most NT documents look far more like rhetorical speeches. Some are “words of exhortation,” as the author of Hebrews calls his homily, and some are more rhetorical speeches suitable for assemblies where discussion would then ensue (e.g., after-dinner discussions at a symposium), but all are profitably analyzed in detail by means of rhetorical examination. At this juncture, it

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