Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels

by Vernon Robbins and Burton L. Mack

""Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels will open the next stage in Synoptic studies. Mack and Robbins have returned synoptic criticism to the road it missed when Bultmann and Dibelius decided to ingnore Greco-Roman education and rhetoric. Starting from a sophisticated and detailed study of what the rhetorical handbooks say about the elaboratioin of chreiai, they illuminate the most basic techniques and logic which the Gospel writers used in developing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606082205
• ISBN13: 9781606082201
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"