Methodology, Speech, Society: The Hebrew Bible
Abstract
Rhetorical criticism has flourished in New Testament studies, with many scholars drawing on either Vernon Robbins’s socio-rhetorical approach or the tools provided by the Graeco-Roman rhetoricians. Much less has been done in the study of the Hebrew Bible, particularly if one excludes those rhetorical studies that follow the lead of James Muilenburg. Yehoshua Gitay has for decades been one of the exceptions. What lends added interest to his work is that he draws strongly on the New Rhetoric of Chaim Perlman (and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca) – something that few other biblical scholars do. As a result, he pays attention in his analyses to arguments (in a broad sense), persuasive potential and societal impact and not only to literary form. This is also evident in the current collections of ten essays, grouped under the headings ‘Methodology’, ‘Speech’ and ‘Downloads
Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
This is an open access journal, and the authors and journal should be properly acknowledged, when works are cited.
Authors may use the publishers version for teaching purposes, in books, theses, dissertations, conferences and conference papers.
A copy of the authors’ publishers version may also be hosted on the following websites:
- Non-commercial personal webpage or blog.
- Institutional webpage.
- Authors Institutional Repository.
The following notice should accompany such a posting on the website: “This is an electronic version of an article published in Scriptura, Volume XXX, number XXX, pages XXX–XXX”, DOI. Authors should also supply a hyperlink to the original paper or indicate where the original paper (http://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub) may be found.
Authors publishers version, affiliated with the Stellenbosch University will be automatically deposited in the University’s’ Institutional Repository SUNScholar.
Articles as a whole, may not be re-published with another journal.
The following license applies:
