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.
Table des matières
Invitation to the Dance
Chapter One : Oral Examination: How Did ‘Oral’ Texts Function in a Rhetorical Culture?
Chapter Two : Canonical Pseudepigrapha—Is It an Oxymoron?
Chapter Three : Rethinking and Redescribing Scribal Culture
Chapter Fou r: The Question of Sermons and Homilies in the New Testament
Chapter Five : Rom. 7.7-25– Retelling Adam’s Tale
Chapter Six : What’s in a Name? Rethinking the Historical Figure of the Beloved Disciple in the 4th Gospel
Chapter Seven : What’s in a Word? Part One: Eidolothuton
Chapter Eight : What’s In A Word? Part Two— Porneia
Chapter Nine : What’s in a Phrase?—‘No Male and Female’ (Gal. 3.28)
Chapter Ten : Christianity in the Making’: Oral Mystery or Eyewitness History?
Chapter Eleven : Rethinking the Canonizing of the New Testament
Chapter Twelve : Sign Posts along the Way—On Taking the Less Travelled Path
A propos de l’auteur
Ben Witherington III is Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary. His publications include Troubled Waters: Rethinking the Theology of Baptism (2007), Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord’s Supper (2007), The Living Word of God: Rethinking the Theology of the Bible (2007), and The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, Wesleyanism, and Pentecostalism, Revised and Expanded Edition (2015).
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