Rhetoric and biblical criticism

Books reviewed

RHETORICAL CRITICISM: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JAMES MUILENBURG. Edited by Jared J. Jackson and Martin Kessler. Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series I. Pittsburgh: Pickwick Press, 1974; pp. xviii+ 287. $7.95.

EARLY CHRISTIAN RHETORIC: THE LANGUAGE OF THE GOSPELS. By Amos Niven Wilder. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1971; pp. xxx+135. $6.50.

THE NEW VOICE: RELIGION, LITERATURE, HERMENEUTICS. By Amos Niven Wilder. New York: Herder and Herder, 1969; pp. 269. $6.50.

THEOPOETIC: THEOLOGY AND THE RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION. By Amos Niven Wilder. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976; pp. vi+ 106. $5.95.

THE POETICS OF FAITH: ESSAYS OFFERED TO AMOS NIVEN WILDER. Edited by William A. Beardslee. Semeia, 12–13. Missoula, Mt.: Scholars, 1978; Vol. 12 pp. vi+277; Vol. 13 pp. vii+287. $6.00 ea.

LANGUAGE, HERMENEUTIC, AND WORD OF GOD: THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY. By Robert W. Funk. New York: Harper & Row, 1966; pp. xvi+317. $7.50.

THE PARABLES: THEIR LITERARY AND EXISTENTIAL DIMENSION. By Dan O. Via, Jr. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1967; pp. xii‐l‐217. $4.50.

LITERARY CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By William A. Beardslee. Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1970; pp. x+86. $2.50.

THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE LITERARY CRITIC. By David Robertson. Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977; pp. viii+87. $3.25.

THE SWORD OF HIS MOUTH. By Robert C. Tannehill. Semeia Supplements 1. Philadelphia: Fortress and Missoula, Mt.: Scholars Press, 1975; pp. vii+214. $4.95.

GOD AND THE RHETORIC OF SEXUALITY. By Phyllis Trible. Overtures to Biblical Theology. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978; pp. xvii+206. $6.50.

RAID ON THE INARTICULATE: COMIC ESCHATOLOGY IN JESUS AND BORGES. By John Dominic Crossan. New York: Harper & Row, 1976; pp. xvi+207. $10.95.

PERSPECTIVES ON THE PARABLES: AN APPROACH TO MULTIPLE INTERPRETATIONS. By Mary Ann Tolbert. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979; pp. 141. $8.95.