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Vain rhetoric : private insight and public debate in Ecclesiastes /
The Book of Ecclesiastes, like many ancient and modern first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical strategy produces both acceptance of, and suspicion towards, the major positions argued by the author. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield, England :
Sheffield Academic Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;
327. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Book of Ecclesiastes, like many ancient and modern first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical strategy produces both acceptance of, and suspicion towards, the major positions argued by the author. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes the persuasive and dissuasive properties of the narrator's peculiar characterization. It also describes how the Book of Ecclesiates, with its abundant use of rhetorical questions, constant gapping techniques, and other strategies from the arsenal of ambiguity, is a stunning testimony to the power of the various str. |
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| Notas: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Theological Union, 1997. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (443 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567644541 0567644545 1281841773 9781281841773 9786611841775 6611841776 |