Ben witheringto iii (2 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written in clear, and at times colorful, prose, Ben Witherington's What's in the Word explains how the recognition of the oral and socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament and its environment necessitates a change in how the New Testament literature is read. Expanding on the work in which he has been fruitfully engaged for over a quarter century, Witherington challenges the previously assured results of historical criticism and demonstrates chapter by chapter how the socio-rhetorical study shifts the paradigm. Taken together, the chapters in What's in the Word coalesce around three of Witherington's ongoing academic concerns: orality and rhetoric; New Testament history, including issues of authenticity and canonicity; and the exegesis of given words in their canonical and socio-cultural contexts. Always unpredictable, this book never fails to pique interest and proffer instruction.…

Condizione: New. In this final instalment of his trilogy on the central ordinances of the Christian faith, Ben Witherington asks: What does it mean to call the Bible God s word ? In doing so, he takes on other recent studies which downplay the connection between history .