Exploring the Texture of Texts A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations

Name: Exploring the Texture of Texts A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations
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ISBN: 9781563381836

ISBN-10: 1563381834

ISBN-13: 9781563381836

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Authors: Vernon K. Robbins

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Socio-rhetorical criticism has established itself as one of the promising new methods of biblical study today. Vernon K. Robbins here provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories.An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the texts we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow chapters on getting inside a text (inner texture), that is, studying the internal aspects of words and meanings in the text: entering the interactive world of the test (intertexture,), that is relating the text being…

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List price: $29.95
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 11/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814



Preface


Introduction: The New Approach Called Socio-Rhetorical Criticism



Inner Texture: Getting Inside a Text



Intertexture: Entering the Interactive World of a Text



Social and Cultural Texture: Living With a Text in the World



Ideological Texture: Sharing Interests in Commentary and Text



Sacred Texture: Seeking the Divine in a Text


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index of Scriptures and Ancient Texts


Index of Modern Authors


Index of Subjects