This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz' anthropological concept of thick description. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. In this manner, multiple methods of interpretation are used in an organized and programmatic way, allowing the reader insights into the development of early Christianity. In this study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christanity. This book investigates Christianity as a cultural phenomenon, and treats its canonical texts as ideological constructs.

The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology

History

Robbins, Vernon K.

Ancient Civilizations

Routledge

This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz' anthropological concept of thick description. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. In this manner, multiple methods of interpretation are used in an organized and programmatic way, allowing the reader insights into the development of early Christianity. In this study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christanity. This book investigates Christianity as a cultural phenomenon, and treats its canonical texts as ideological constructs.

The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (And Thought. Translation)

Spanning early Christian writings from the Gospel of Mark to the Acts of John, this book by Vernon Robbins explores the various ways early Christians explained their understanding of the special nature of Jesus beyond the canonical Gospels. Who Do People Say I Am? shows how second-and third-century Christian authors of additional Gospels and Gospel-like writings expanded and elaborated on Jesus’ divinity in the context of his earthly existence. According to Robbins, these Christian authors thought that the New Testament Gospel writers could and should have emphasized the divinity of Jesus more than they did. Throughout the book Robbins asks and answers questions such as these: 
<ul>
<li>If Jesus introduced new beliefs and practices, what did second- and third-century believers find unresolved in the New Testament Gospels about those beliefs and practices, and how did they try to resolve them?</li>
<li>What gaps in the storylines of the New Testament Gospels did second- and third-century Christian writers think could be filled in, and how did they fill them in?</li>
<li>If Jesus really were fully divine when he came to earth and lived among his disciples, what experiences did his disciples have that the New Testament Gospels do not tell us?</li>
</ul>Learning activities and a bibliography at the end of each chapter help make this book a valuable resource for students and any other interested readers.

Who Do People Say I Am?: Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Eerdmans

Sea Voyages and Beyond: Emerging Strategies in Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation (Emory Studies in Early Christianity)

Explore insights, methodologies, and advances in socio-rhetorical interpretation Essays in this volume from Vernon K. Robbins merge social and rhetorical strategies of interpretation and set the stage for how socio-rhetorical interpretation has developed in the context of research into the rhetoric of religious antiquity. This book contains “By Land and By Sea: The We Passages and Ancient Sea Voyages” (1978), which initially received widespread praise and then became an object of significant criticism. The volume includes Robbins’s varied, detailed responses to both encouragement and critique of his approach. Features:
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<li>Introduction to the collection by David B. Gowler</li> <li>Twelve essays that programmatically study early Christian texts using resources from the social sciences</li> <li>Reflections on the future of socio-rhetorical criticism</li>
</ul>

SBL Press

Welcoming the Nations: International Sociorhetorical Explorations (International Voices in Biblical Studies)

This volume celebrates and reflects upon sociorhetorical interpretation of the New Testament as developed by Vernon K. Robbins in The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse (Routledge) and Exploring the Texture of Texts (Continuum), both published in 1996. Scholars from around the world take sociorhetorical interpretation into new arenas to approach issues arising from their own contexts, including the environment, gender, and economics.

Jeal, Roy R.

Paperback. Wrappers and edges of leaves are stained, foxed and worn.

Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels

Mack, Burton L.

Polebridge Pr Westar Inst

Socio-rhetorical criticism has established itself as one of the promising new methods of biblical study today. Vernon K. Robbins here provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories.An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the texts we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow chapters on getting inside a text (inner texture), that is, studying the internal aspects of words and meanings in the text: entering the interactive world of the test (intertexture,), that is relating the text being interpreted to a wide range of phenomena that lie outside the text: living with the text in the world (social and cultural texture), that is, examining the social and cultural locations in the world that the language of the text evokes: and shared interests in commentary and in the text (ideological texture), that is, looking at the way the text itself and interpreters of the text position themselves in relation to other individuals and groups.Texts studied include the rich man and Jesus in Mark 10:17-22 (inner texture): the Pentecost event in Acts 2 (intertexture): the woman who anointed Jesus in Luke 7:36-50 and John 9 (social and cultural texture): the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40 and “women keep silent” in 1 Corinthians 14: 26-40 (ideological texture).Vernon K. Robbins is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion, Emory University, and the author of Ancient Quotes and Anecdotes: From Crib to Crypt and The Rhetoric of Pronouncement.

Exploring the Texture of Texts

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Trinity Press International

Essays in this volume from Vernon K. Robbins merge social and rhetorical strategies of interpretation and set the stage for socio-rhetorical interpretation as it is currently practiced in the context of research in the SBL's Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity program unit. The book contains Robbins's 1978 version of his essay on the we-passages in the Acts of the Apostles as sea voyages, which initially received widespread praise and then became an object of significant criticism. Robbins presents a detailed response to the positive uses and negative criticisms of his approach.

This volume celebrates and reflects upon sociorhetorical interpretation of the New Testament as developed by Vernon K. Robbins in The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse (Routledge) and Exploring the Texture of Texts (Continuum), both published in 1996. Scholars from around the world take sociorhetorical interpretation into new arenas to approach issues arising from their own contexts, including the environment, gender, and economics.

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The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology

The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (And Thought. Translation)

Who Do People Say I Am?: Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity

Sea Voyages and Beyond: Emerging Strategies in Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation (Emory Studies in Early Christianity)

Welcoming the Nations: International Sociorhetorical Explorations (International Voices in Biblical Studies)

Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels

The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology

Exploring the Texture of Texts

Sea Voyages and Beyond: Emerging Strategies in Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation (Emory Studies in Early Christianity)

Welcoming the Nations: International Sociorhetorical Explorations (International Voices in Biblical Studies)