Vain rhetoric : private insight and public debate in Ecclesiastes /
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| Author / Creator: | Salyer, Gary D. |
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| Imprint: | Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2001. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (443 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 327 Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 327. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11183584 |
| Summary: | 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 strategies of indirection to communicate to the reader something of his or her own rhetorical liabilities and limitations, as well as those of the religious community in general. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Theological Union, 1997. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (443 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567644541 0567644545 1841271810 9781841271811 1281841773 9781281841773 9786611841775 6611841776 |