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1 online resource (xi, 257 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme ; 16
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Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 16.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rhetoric, rhetoricality, and discourse performances / Willi Braun -- Rhetoric of social construction: language and society in the Gospel of Thomas / William E. Arnal -- Melito of Sardis, the second sophistic, and "Israel" / Laurence Broadhurst -- Early Christian heroes and Lukan narrative: Stephen and the Hellenists in ancient historiographical perspective / Todd Penner -- Can Nympha rule this house? The rhetoric of domesticity in Colossians / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- "Raised from the dung": hagiography, liberation, and the social subversiveness of early Medieval Christianity / John Kitchen -- Philosophical counsel versus customary lament in fourth-century Christian responses to death / Theodore S. de Bruyn -- Performativity, narrativity, and cognition: "demythologizing" the Roman cult of Mithras / Luther H. Martin -- Feeling persuaded: Christianization as social formation / Chad Kile. |
| Summary |
One of the most pressing issues for scholars of religion concerns the role of persuasion in early Christianities and other religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. The essays in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The contributors theorize about persuasion as the effect of verbal performances, such as argumentation in accordance with rules of rhetoric, or as a result of other types of performance: ritual, behavioural, or imagistic. They discuss the relationship between the verbal performance of rhetoric and o. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) |
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Christianity. |
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History. |
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region.
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Social aspects. |
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Mediterranean Region. |
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30 - 600 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Braun, Willi, 1954-
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Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rhetoric and reality in early Christianities. Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des Sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005 0889204624 (OCoLC)61526327 |
| ISBN |
1423743024 (electronic book) |
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9781423743026 (electronic book) |
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0889204624 |
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9780889204621 |
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9780889209138 |
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0889209138 |
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1280280794 |
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9781280280795 |
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