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Socio-rhetorical criticism has established itself as one of the promising new methods of biblical study today. Vernon K. Robbins here provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories. An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the texts we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow chapters on getting inside a text (inner texture), that is, studying the internal aspects of words and meanings in the entering the interactive world of the test (intertexture,), that is relating the text being interpreted to a wide range of phenomena that lie outside the living with the text in the world (social and cultural texture), that is, examining the social and cultural locations in the world that the language of the text and shared interests in commentary and in the text (ideological texture), that is, looking at the way the text itself and interpreters of the text position themselves in relation to other individuals and groups. Texts studied include the rich man and Jesus in Mark 10:17-22 (inner textur

Author

Vernon K Robbins, (Vernon Kay), 1939-

Publisher

Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781563381836

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible