Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Stanley E. Porter -- Dedication / Editor: Stanley E. Porter -- Preface / Stanley E. Porter -- Introduction / Stanley E. Porter -- Chapter 1 Historical Survey of Rhetoric / George A. Kennedy -- Chapter 2 The Genres of Rhetoric / George A. Kennedy -- Chapter 3 Arrangement / Wilhelm Wuellner -- Chapter 4 Invention / Malcolm Heath -- Chapter 5 Style / Galen O. Rowe -- Chapter 6 Delivery and Memory / Thomas H. Olbricht -- Chapter 7 The Epistle / Jeffrey T. Reed -- Chapter 8 Philosophical Prose / Dirk M. Schenkeveld -- Chapter 9 Historical Prose / Stefan Rebenich -- Chapter 10 Poetry and Rhetoric / Ruth Webb -- Chapter 11 Biography / Richard A. Burridge -- Chapter 12 Oratory and Declamation / D. H. Berry and Malcolm Heath -- Chapter 13 Homily and Panegyrical Sermon / Folker Siegert -- Chapter 14 The Rhetoric of Romance / Ronald F. Hock -- Chapter 15 Apocalyptic and Prophetic Literature / Jonathan M. Knight -- Chapter 16 Drama and Rhetoric / Ruth Scodel -- Chapter 17 The Gospels and Acts / Richard A. Burridge -- Chapter 18 Paul of Tarsus and His Letters / Stanley E. Porter -- Chapter 19 The General New Testament Writings / Lauri Thurén -- Chapter 20 The Johannine Writings / Dennis L. Stamps -- Chapter 21 The Greek Christian Writers / Wolfram Kinzig -- Chapter 22 The Latin Church Fathers / Philip E. Satterthwaite -- Chapter 23 Philo of Alexandria / Thomas M. Conley -- Chapter 24 Plutarch / Hubert M. Martin Jr. -- Chapter 25 The Rhetoric of Josephus / Donna R. Runnalls -- Chapter 26 Cynics and Rhetoric / Ronald F. Hock -- Chapter 27 Translations of the Old Testament / John A. L. Lee -- Chapter 28 Rhetoric in the Christian Apocrypha / Richard I. Pervo -- Chapter 29 The Rhetoric of Inscriptions / Edwin A. Judge -- Index of Sources / Editor: Stanley E. Porter -- Index of Modern Authors / Editor: Stanley E. Porter.

This detailed reference work provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging introduction to classical rhetoric as it was practised in the hellenistic period (330 B.C.-A.D.400). In three sections, it provides a thorough description and analysis of the standard categories of thought, terminology, and theoretical and historical developments of classical rhetoric, as well as providing useful bibliographies. The three sections of essays define the major categories of rhetoric, analyze rhetorical practice according to genre of writing, and treat individual writers in the rhetorical tradition. 27 international scholars from a wide range of backgrounds have contributed to this high-quality publication, which provides an state-of-the-art overview of the current research and will from the basis of future explorations. Students of the rhetoric of the New Testament, the hellenistic period, the classical period and the patristic era will all find this volume useful and insightful, as will those with general interests in these subjects. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

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