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 soci...
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Invitation to the Dance
Chapter One : Oral Examination: How Did ‘Oral’ Texts Function in a Rhetorical Culture?
Chapter Two : Canonical Pseudepigrapha–Is It an Oxymoro...
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Ben Witherington III is Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary. His publications include Troubled Waters: Rethinking the ...