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What's in the Word

Name: What's in the Word
Author: Ben Witherington III
ISBN: 9781602581968

Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament

by Ben Witherington III

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

A colorful look at the implications of an oral culture producing texts

Sales Date: Tuesday, 16th Jun 2009

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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 assured results of historical criticism and demonstrates chapter by chapter how the socio-rhetorical study shifts the paradigm.

Taken together, the chapters in What's in the Word coalesce around three of Witherington's ongoing academic concerns: orality and rhetoric; New Testament history, including issues of authenticity and canonicity; and the exegesis of given words in their canonical and socio-cultural contexts. Always unpredictable, this book never fails to pique interest and proffer instruction.

Invitation to the Dance

Chapter One: Oral Examination: How Did 'Oral' Texts Function in a Rhetorical Culture?

Chapter Two: Canonical Pseudepigrapha--Is It an Oxymoron?

Chapter Three: Rethinking and Redescribing Scribal Culture

Chapter Four: The Question of Sermons and Homilies in the New Testament

Chapter Five: Rom. 7.7-25- Retelling Adam's Tale

Chapter Six: What's in a Name? Rethinking the Historical Figure of the Beloved Disciple in the 4th Gospel

Chapter Seven: What's in a Word? Part One: Eidolothuton

Chapter Eight: What's In A Word? Part Two--Porneia

Chapter Nine: What's in a Phrase?--'No Male and Female' (Gal. 3.28)

Chapter Ten: Christianity in the Making': Oral Mystery or Eyewitness History?

Chapter Eleven: Rethinking the Canonizing of the New Testament

Chapter Twelve: Sign Posts along the Way--On Taking the Less Travelled Path

Ben Witherington III is Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary. His publications include Troubled Waters: Rethinking the Theology of Baptism (2007), Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper (2007), The Living Word of God: Rethinking the Theology of the Bible (2007), and The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, Wesleyanism, and Pentecostalism, Revised and Expanded Edition (2015).

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