Inventing Hebrews Design and Purpose in Ancient Rhetoric

Name: Inventing Hebrews Design and Purpose in Ancient Rhetoric
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ISBN: 9781108429467

ISBN-10: 1108429467

ISBN-13: 9781108429467

Edition: 2018

Authors: Michael Wade Martin, Jason A. Whitlark

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Inventing Hebrews examines a perennial topic in the study of the Letter to the Hebrews, its structure and purpose. Michael Martin and Jason Whitlark undertake a thorough synthesis of the ancient theory of invention and arrangement, providing a new account of Hebrews' design. The key to the speech's outline, the authors argue, is in its use of "disjointed" arrangement, a template ubiquitous in antiquity but little discussed in modern biblical studies. This method of arrangement accounts for the long-observed pattern of alternating epideictic and deliberative units in Hebrews as blocks of narratio and argumentatiorespectively. Thus the "letter" may be seen as a conventional speech arranged…

Book details

Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/7/2018
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.78" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

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 ofnbsp;Judas and the Rhetoric of Comparison in the Fourth Gospelnbsp;(2010) and coauthor ofnbsp;Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament.

Jason A. Whitlark is Assistant Professor in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core at Baylor University.