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Vain Rhetoric

Private Insight and Public Debate in Ecclesiastes

  • Hardback
  • 448 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.9 cm

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For scholars and readers of biblical literature

Helps you navigate complex rhetorical strategies

You will gain a deeper understanding of Ecclesiastes

Vain Rhetoric explores the complex themes of Ecclesiastes through insightful analysis.

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.

  • Title

    Vain Rhetoric

  • Author

    Gary D. Salyer

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    June 2001

  • Weight

    718g

  • Page Count

    448

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781841271811

  • ISBN-10

    1841271810

  • Eden Code

    1180969