Inventing Hebrews - Design and Purpose in Ancient Rhetoric

Inventing Hebrews uncovers a template of arrangement ubiquitous in antiquity as the key to the conundrum of Hebrews' structure and purpose.

List of contents

1. Structuring Hebrews: modern approaches to an ancient text; Part I. Laying the Foundation - Syncrisis in Hebrew: 2. Comparing covenants: the syncritical backbone of Hebrews; 3. Choosing the advantageous: deliberative syncrisis and epideictic syncrisis in Hebrews; Part II. Arranging the Speech - The Ancient Rhetorical Design of Hebrews: 4. Arranging an ancient speech: ancient compositional theory and a proposal for modern analysis; 5. Proving the case: argumentatio in Hebrews; 6. Presenting the facts relevant to the case: narratio in Hebrews; 7. Beginning with favor: exordium in Hebrews; 8. Ending with recapitulation and emotion: Peroratio in Hebrews; 9. Putting it all together: the rhetorical arrangement and aim of Hebrews; 10. Examining implications: Early Christian sermons and apostasy in Hebrews.

About the author

Michael Wade Martin is a Professor of New Testament in the Alfred and Patricia Smith College of Biblical Studies at Lubbock Christian University. He is the author of Judas and the Rhetoric of Comparison in the Fourth Gospel (2010) and co-author of Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament (forthcoming).Jason A. Whitlark is an Associate Professor of New Testament in Baylor University's Honors College. He also serves as the Assistant Faculty Director of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. He is the author of Enabling Fidelity to God: Perseverance in Hebrews in Light of the Ancient Reciprocity Systems of the Ancient Mediterranean World (2009) and Resisting Empire: Rethinking the Purpose of the Letter to the 'Hebrews' (2014).

Summary

Designed for scholars and other advanced students of the Bible and classical rhetorical theory, Inventing Hebrews proposes that the 'disjointed' form of arrangement, a template ubiquitous in antiquity but little discussed in modern biblical studies, holds the key to the longstanding question of Hebrews' structure and purpose.

Product details

• Authors: Michael W. Martin, Michael Wade Martin, Michael Wade (Lubbock Christian University Martin, MARTIN MICHAEL WADE, Jason A. Whitlark, Jason A. (Baylor University Whitlark, Whitlark Jason A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781108429467
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42946-7
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series; Society for New Testament Stud; Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series; Society for New Testament Stud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, Bibles, Religion: general, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, Religion and beliefs, Hebrew, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, New Testaments, Biblical Studies & Exegesis