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A major scholarly collaboration exploring vivid visual rhetoric in the New Testament
> The research in this collection explores the relationship between vivid rhetoric and genre, taking into account technical features, authorial intent, and audience response. Specific topics include:
- The New Testament's rhetoric compared against Greco-Roman rhetorical handbooks
- Juxtaposition between vivid and non-vivid rhetoric
- The use of energeia in John's Gospel to draw upon the reader's multiple senses
- Aesthetics and the grotesque in Revelation
- The use of travelogue to create a virtual journey for the audience
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Vivid Rhetoric and Visual Persuasion is a must-read for scholars of early Christianity and rhetorical criticism. Readers will find this collection indispensable in understanding a complex feature of the New Testament in its historical context.
ContributorsContributors Bart B. Bruehler, Diane Fruchtman, Meghan Henning, Martina Kepper, Susanne Luther, Harry O. Maier, Gudrun Nassauer, Nils Neumann, Vernon K. Robbins, Gary S. Selby, Aldo Tagliabue, Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang, Annette Weissenrieder, Robyn J. Whitaker
About the author
Meghan Henning is associate professor of Christian origins at the University of Dayton. Her previous books include
Educating Early Christians through the Rhetoric of Hell and
Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christianity.
Nils Neumann is professor of biblical theology at Leibniz University Hannover. His previous books include
Armut und Reichtum im Lukasevangelium und in der kynischen Philosophie and
Lukas und Menippos.
