Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah
Phyllis Trible examines rhetorical criticism as a discipline within biblical studies. In Part One she surveys the historical antecedents of the method from ancient times to the postmodern era: classical rhetoric, literary critical theory, literary study of the Bible, and form criticism. Trible then presents samples of rhetorical analysis as the art of composition and as the art of persuasion.\ In Part Two, formulated guidelines are applied to a detailed study of the book of Jonah. A close...
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Phyllis Trible examines rhetorical criticism as a discipline within biblical studies. In Part One she surveys the historical antecedents of the method from ancient times to the postmodern era: classical rhetoric, literary critical theory, literary study of the Bible, and form criticism. Trible then presents samples of rhetorical analysis as the art of composition and as the art of persuasion.In Part Two, formulated guidelines are applied to a detailed study of the book of Jonah. A close reading with respect to structure, syntax, style, and substance elicits a host of meanings embedded in text, enabling the relationship between artistry and theology to emerge with clarity.Rhetorical Criticism has many distinctive features. It isthe first comprehensive treatment of biblical rhetorical criticism as it has emerged within the latter half of the twentieth century. a didactic treatise that combines theoretical discussion, practical guidelines, and detailed exegesis interdisciplinary in approach, engaging the rhetorical study of the Bible with expanding developments in secular literary criticism (structuralism, poetics, reader-response criticism, and deconstruction, for example) and in the similarly burgeoning field of contemporary rhetoric itself a model of the rhetorical analysis that it describes accessible both to the novice and to the scholar
Editor's ForewordPrefaceAbbreviationsPrologue1Pt. 1Context1Sketching the Background52Introducing the Foreground253Expanding the Background55Pt. 2Method and the Book of Jonah4Guidelines for Beginning915External Design of Jonah1076Internal Structure of Scene One (1:1-16)1237Internal Structure of Scene One (2:1-11)1578Internal Structure of Scene Two (3:1-10)1759Internal Structure of Scene Two (4:1-11)19510Guidelines for Continuing227App. A. The Book of Jonah: A Study in Structure237App. B. Quiz245Authors and Editors253Hebrew Words258Scripture259Subjects262
