Rhetoric on J. David Stark

How to Understand the Fusion of Rhetoric and Hermeneutics

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:59:49 +0000

At first glance, rhetoric and hermeneutics are quite different things. But, if we look more closely, they comingle in a way that makes them inseparable.

Daily Gleanings: New Publications (24 July 2019)

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:00:36 +0000

Daily Gleanings from Greg Goswell about reading Romans after Acts and from Carol Newsom about rhetoric and hermeneutics in biblical and ST literature.

Aune on enthymemes in New Testament scholarship

Fri, 25 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000

In a helpful 2003 essay, David Aune discusses “the use and abuse of the enthymeme in New Testament scholarship” (New Testament Studies 49, no. 3, 299–320).

Cope’s introduction to Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000

E. M. Cope’s 1867 introduction to Aristotle’s Rhetoric (London: MacMillan) is available via Internet Archive in several different scans.

Burkett on Aristotle's "Rhetoric"

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:00:09 +0000

Texas Christian University’s open, online thesis repository contains John Burkett’s treatment of Book III of Aristotle’s Retoric. The project is a commentary-style work on that book that strives to complete the project that William Grimaldi began with Books I and II. According to the abstract,

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:48:50 +0000

I hadn’t noticed until today, but among the volumes available at Loebolus is Aristotle’s Rhetoric (vol. 193; ed. J. H. Freese, 1926).

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:13:15 +0000

It seems like I’ve seen the site before, but Gideon Burton at Brigham Young University has digested a good deal of information about classical and Renaissance rhetoric at Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric. The site “is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).”

Book Review: The Office of Assertion

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:23:07 +0000

Scott Crider

Scott Crider teaches in the English Department at the University of Dallas. His book, The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay ( affiliate disclosure), is intended to provide an introduction to “the classical art of rhetoric and composition” (xi). While providing this introduction, Crider specifically seeks to argue that rhetoric is, as a liberal art, a noble pursuit and to improve the readers ability to write academic prose (2).