Machine generated contents note: 1. Challenge of Socio-Rhetorical Criticism -- 2. Redrawing the Boundaries with Socio-Rhetorical Criticism -- 3. Inner Texture: Every Reading has a Subtext -- 4. Intertexture: Every Comparison has Boundaries -- 5. Social and Cultural Texture: Every Meaning has a Context -- 6. Ideological Texture: Every Theology has a Politics -- 7. Promise of Socio-Rhetorical Criticism
Summary
Annotation In this original study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christianity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index
