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  • What's in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament
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  • Ben Witherington III
  • 2009
  • Published by: Baylor University Press
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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Invitation to the Dance
  2. pp. 1-5
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  1. 1. Oral Examination: How Did "Oral" Texts Function in a Rhetorical Culture?
  2. pp. 7-17
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  1. 2. Canonical Pseudepigrapha: Is It an Oxymoron?
  2. pp. 19-32
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  1. 3. Rethinking and Redescribing Scribal Culture
  2. pp. 33-47
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  1. 4. The Question of Sermons and Homilies in the New Testament
  2. pp. 49-60
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  1. 5. Romans 7:7-25: Retelling Adam's Tale
  2. pp. 61-76
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  1. 6. What's in a Name? Rethinking the Historical Figure of the Beloved Disciple in the Fourth Gospel
  2. pp. 77-87
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  1. 7. What's in a Word? Part One—Eidolothuton
  2. pp. 89-101
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  1. 8. What's in a Word? Part Two—Porneia
  2. pp. 103-111
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  1. 9. What's in a Phrase? "No Male and Female" (Galatians 3:28)
  2. pp. 113-120
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  1. 10. "Christianity in the Making": Oral Mystery or Eyewitness History?
  2. pp. 121-142
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  1. 11. The Rise of Canon Consciousness and the Formation of the New Testament
  2. pp. 143-164
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  1. 12. Signposts along the Way: On Taking the Less-Traveled Path
  2. pp. 165-169
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 171-188
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  1. Scripture Index
  2. pp. 189-192
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  1. Index of Subjects and Authors
  2. pp. 193-195
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