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...

sometimes thought, and that same lack of polarizing diversity is a feature of the NT literature itself. And there will be other surprises along the way. I shall urge a significant paradigm shift in the ways we view and evaluate the oral tradition behind the Gospels, which should be assessed on the basis of the concept of oral history rather than the older critical theories about oral tradition. I shall devote an entire chapter in this study to interacting with and critiquing Dunn’s powerful Jesus

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