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Vain Rhetoric

Vain Rhetoric

Author: Gary D. Salyer

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9780567644541

Category: Religion

Page: 448

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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.
Wisdom: The Collected Articles of Norman Whybray
Language: en
Pages: 369

Wisdom: The Collected Articles of Norman Whybray

Authors: Margaret Barker
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-15 - Publisher: Routledge

This collection of articles confirms Norman Whybray's place as one of the foremost contributors to scholarship on wisdom literature in the last three decades of the twentieth century. A former President of the Society for Old Testament Study, and winner of the British Academy's Burkitt Medal, Whybray wrote extensively on
Vain Rhetoric
Language: en
Pages: 448

Vain Rhetoric

Authors: Gary D. Salyer
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

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
Theodicy in the World of the Bible
Language: en
Pages:

Theodicy in the World of the Bible

Authors: Antii Laato, Johannes de Moor
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-08 - Publisher: BRILL

In this volume experts from many disciplines explore the origins of the theodicy problem in ancient Near Eastern, biblical and early Jewish literature.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee
Language: en
Pages:

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee

Authors: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Categories: Legislative hearings
Type: BOOK - Published: 1966 - Publisher:

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The Parable of the Fig Tree
Language: en
Pages: 196

The Parable of the Fig Tree

Authors: Jerry O. Roberg
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-01 - Publisher: Xulon Press

At age eleven, Jerry raced the 1949 Soap Box Derby in Des Moines, Iowa. Jerry was disqualified when forced to leave his lane trying to avoid a collision with the driver in the center lanes. This contestants steering cable broke, he lost control crashed into the fence and broke a

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