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The Invention of Early Christian Discourse

The Invention of Early Christian Discourse 496 Book Reviews / Biblical Interpretation 18 (2010) 418-527 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156851510X503226 Th e Invention of Early Christian Discourse. Volume 1 . By Vernon K. Robbins. Blandford Forum: Deo, 2009. Pp. xxx + 565. As early as 1984, Vernon Robbins proposed “sociorhetorical criticism” as an inter - pre tive analytic, which became more fully realized in the mid-1990s through his integration of insights from various interpretive methods employed widely in research- ing ancient biblical texts, including historical-critical, literary-narrative, and social- scientifi c approaches. Sociorhetorical criticism assumes that a text represents a slice of social, cultural, and ideological communication. Each of these communication pieces evokes a constellation of networks of meaning. It is this network of meaning that makes the communication recognizable and eff ective. In general, most people can recog nize social topoi , but cultural and ideological topoi are recognizable only to people nurtured within the particular local culture or ideology out of which they arise. Th ese topoi are developed in two ways, each of which has been given a technical designation by Robbins: “rhetography” refers to the communication of a mental picture or graphic image and evokes a picture from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biblical Interpretation Brill

The Invention of Early Christian Discourse

Ascough, Richard
Biblical Interpretation , Volume 18 (4-5): 496 – Jan 1, 2010
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496 Book Reviews / Biblical Interpretation 18 (2010) 418-527 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156851510X503226 Th e Invention of Early Christian Discourse. Volume 1 . By Vernon K. Robbins. Blandford Forum: Deo, 2009. Pp. xxx + 565. As early as 1984, Vernon Robbins proposed “sociorhetorical criticism” as an inter - pre tive analytic, which became more fully realized in the mid-1990s through his integration of insights from various interpretive methods employed widely in research- ing ancient biblical texts, including historical-critical, literary-narrative, and social- scientifi c approaches. Sociorhetorical criticism assumes that a text represents a slice of social, cultural, and ideological communication. Each of these communication pieces evokes a constellation of networks of meaning. It is this network of meaning that makes the communication recognizable and eff ective. In general, most people can recog nize social topoi , but cultural and ideological topoi are recognizable only to people nurtured within the particular local culture or ideology out of which they arise. Th ese topoi are developed in two ways, each of which has been given a technical designation by Robbins: “rhetography” refers to the communication of a mental picture or graphic image and evokes a picture from

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