Vain Rhetoric: Private Insight and Public Debate in Ecclesiastes: No. 327 (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) - Hardcover

Salyer, Gary D.

 
9781841271811: Vain Rhetoric: Private Insight and Public Debate in Ecclesiastes: No. 327 (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1841271810 ISBN 13: 9781841271811
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2001

Synopsis

The Book of Ecclesiastes, like many ancient and modern first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical strategy produces both acceptance of, and suspicion towards, the major positions argued by the author. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes the persuasive and dissuasive properties of the narrator's peculiar characterization. It also describes how the Book of Ecclesiates, with its abundant use of rhetorical questions, constant gapping techniques, and other strategies from the arsenal of ambiguity, is a stunning testimony to the power of the various strategies of indirection to communicate to the reader something of his or her own rhetorical liabilities and limitations, as well as those of the religious community in general.

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About the Author

Gary Salyer is Adjunct Professor of Biblical Interpretation, Fuller Theological Seminary of Northern California, Menlo Park, California.

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Publisher
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1841271810
ISBN 13 
9781841271811
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
448