Rhetorics and Hermeneutics Wilhelm Wuellner and His Influence

by Hester, James D.

• ISBN13: 9780567025807
• ISBN10: 0567025802
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Wilhelm Wuellner is the father of rhetorical criticism of the New Testament and his work has focused on the ever-present relationship between hermeneutics and rhetorics. He has emphasized that at no time in the history of rhetoric was rhetoric a unified or monolithic field. He attributes the demise of rhetoric in the nineteenth century to the rise of Romanticism and its connection with irrationalism, as well as the profound technological shift in the media of communication with the advent of the print culture and the loss of the living word and he emphasizes the counter-cultural nature of Jewish and Christian rhetoric. Together the essays provide not only a fitting tribute to the continuing influence of Wuellner and his work but also original studies of various New Testament texts read through the eyes of rhetorical criticism. Since Wuellner is well-known outside of New Testament circles, this collection will also appeal to classical rhetoricians.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Part One: Hermeneutical Rhetorics
Wuellner and His Interlocutors
1. The Wuellnenan Sublime: Rhetoncs, Power and the Ethics of Commun(icat)ion
J. David Hester (Amador)	3	(20)
2. Reconceiving a Rhetoric of Religion: A Rhetorics of Power and the Power of the Sublime
Wilhelm Wuellner	23	(55)
3. Wilhelm Wuellner and the Promise of Rhetoric Thomas
H. Olbricht	78	(27)
4. Where is Wuellner's Anti-Hermeneutical Hermeneutic Taking Us?: From Schleiermacher to Thistleton and Beyond
Vernon K. Robbins	105	(24)
Part Two: Rhetorical Hermeneutics
Texts, Interpreters, Interpretations
5. Applause and Applause Lines in the Gospel of Mark
Whitney Shiner	129	(16)
6. Luke and the Rhetoncs of Discipleship: The "L" Parables as Case Study
Greg Carey	145	(30)
7. Paul's Periodic Apologia
Jerry W. McCant	175	(18)
8. The Rhetoric of Transcendence in the Book of Revelation
Lewis Leroy (Lee) Snyder	193	(25)
9. John Chrysostom as Modern Rhetorician
Lauri Thurén	218	(23)
A Bibliography of Wilhelm Wuellner's Writings	241	(8)
Contributors	249