What's in the Word : rethinking the socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament / [print]
Ben Witherington III.
- Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, (c)2009.
- viii, 195 pages ; 23 cm.
Invitation to the dance -- Oral examination : how did "oral" texts function in a rhetorical culture? -- Canonical pseudepigrapha : is it an oxymoron? -- Rethinking and redescribing scribal culture -- The question of sermons and homilies in the New Testament -- Romans 7:7-25 : retelling Adam's tale -- What's in a name? : rethinking the historical figure of the beloved disciple in the Fourth Gospel -- What's in a word? part one : eidolothuton -- What's in a word? part two : porneia -- What's in a phrase? : "no male and female" (Galatians 3:28) -- "Christianity in the making" : oral mystery or eyewitness history? -- The rise of canon consciousness and the formation of the New Testament -- Signposts along the way : on taking the less-traveled path.