THO 6321 Rhetorical Analysis of Biblical and Related Materials: Philosophical and Hermeneutical Considerations in Contemporary Rhetorical Analysis for Exegesis: Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, and Meaning in Scripture
What is rhetorical analysis? What is the relationship between rhetorical analysis and hermeneutics? What is the significance of rhetorical analysis and hermeneutics where religion/theology is concerned? How does sociorhetorical interpretation to respond to these questions?
How do we discern meaning (a hermeneutical task) in the Bible understood as texts of a certain rhetorical nature? What are the delimiting criteria in discerning this meaning (e.g., cultural and contextual determination of the original texts, historical change and/or evaluation, the subjective stance of the interpreter, etc.)?
Are there specific ways that the above questions play out in terms of the Old Testament and the New Testament?
Overview
| CODE: THO 3161 | TITLE: Rhetorical Analysis of Biblical and Related Materials: Philosophical and hermeneutical considerations in contemporary rhetorical analysis for exegesis | | CREDITS: 3 cr. | | | SESSION: Winter, 2010 | Professor: L. Gregory Bloomquist | | DESCRIPTION | A course designed to introduce students to the philosophical and hermeneutical background to recent developments in the rhetorical analysis of biblical materials. | | OBJECTIVES | This course is intended to enable students to explore recent, important developments in hermeneutically sensitive rhetorical theory (including, but not limited to sociorhetorical interpretation) and to explore the implications of this theory for our understanding of Biblical or related texts. The main goal will be to enable students to identify within this exploration particular methodological approaches that may be of use to them in their own study of biblical texts. | | WORKLOAD | - Readings (geared to class discussion)
- Research paper
- Final exam
| | EVALUATION / REVIEW | - Research paper: 70%
- Final exam (oral): 30%
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| | SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND/OR WWW SITES: |
- Patricia Bizzell, The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present
 . - George Kennedy, A New History of Classical Rhetoric
 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). - Patricia P. Matsen, Philip Rollinson, and Marion Sousa, Readings from Classical Rhetoric
 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990). - Laurent Pernot, Rhetoric in Antiquity
 (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005). - Vernon K. Robbins, The Invention of Christian Discourse
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