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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Roman Rhetoric"”.
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Paul's Apparent Reversal of Concern for the Weak Brother in l Corinthians 10:29B-30: an Examination of the Text in Light of Greco-Roman Rhetoric
… (chapter 4) suggests a unified deliberative rhetorical argumentation that characterizes 1 Corinthians. Paul's deliberative rhetoric reveals that the two rhetorical questions in 10:29b-30 function in two ways. First, they are asked to <em>dissuade</em> the "strong" from setting a bad example …
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Characterizing Jesus : a rhetorical analysis on the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture in its presenation of Jesus.
… characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism, it approaches the Gospel in its final form, paying particular attention to how Greco-Roman rhetoric can assist in understanding the ways in which Scripture is employed to support the presentation of Jesus. This study, …
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Paul’s Culturally Contextualized Apologetic
… use of non-canonical quotes, traces of Greco-Roman rhetoric in Paul’s speeches, and his role-playing as a sage figure. Analysis of Paul’s Acts speeches reveal that there is a structural scheme: all apologetics speeches feature cultural connection and cultural solidarity, as well as an appeal …
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The hermeneutics of social identity in Luke-Acts
… utilizing elements of firstcentury Greco-Roman rhetoric. My eclectic, yet integrated approach aims to do justice to under-recognized features of social identity formation in Luke’s two volume work, with a particular focus on volume two (Acts).
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Jurists and Orators: Rhetorical and Legal Perspectives on the Roman Family
<p>Roman legal advocacy and legal expertise have long been viewed as two different fields of occupation with different intellectual aims and have therefore been assumed to have had little interaction with one another. More recent scholarship, however, has questioned this dichotomy between orators …
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A Commentary on Selected Chapters of Tacitus Annales 13
This thesis provides a commentary on chapters 15–25 (inclusive) of Tacitus Annales 13 which form part of Tacitus’ annalistic narrative of the years AD 55 and 56, narrating the murder of Britannicus and its aftermath, Junia Silana’s conspiracy against Agrippina, Pallas’ and Burrus’ alleged plot …