Course Bibliography: Primary
Texts, Ancient Rhetoric, Comparative
Rhetoric, Theories
(starred * items are on reserve in Bird Library)
Ancient Near Eastern Texts in
Translation (grouped by culture)
:
- * Hallo, W. W. and K. L. Younger, Jr., eds. The Context of Scripture:
Canonical Compositions, Monumental Inscriptions, and Archival Documents
from the Biblical World. 3 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1997, 2000, 2002.
- Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Harps that once ...: Sumerian poetry
in translation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
- Vanstiphout, Herman. Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta.
SBL Writings from the Ancient World 20. Atlanta: SBL, 2003.
- Black, Jeremy, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor
Zólyomi, The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004.
- ONLINE: The
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
- Foster, Benjamin R. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian
Literature. 2 vols. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1993.
- * Foster, Benjamin R. From Distant Days: Myths, Tales and Poetry
of Ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1995.
- Roth, Martha T. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor.
SBL Writings from the Ancient World 6. Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1995.
- Nissinen, Martti. Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East.
SBL Writings from the Ancient World 12. Atlanta: SBL, 2003.
- Michalowski, Piotr. Letters from Early Mesopotamia. SBL Writings
from the Ancient World 3. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.
- Bryce, Trevor. Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near
East: the Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age. London/New
York: Routledge, 2003.
- Luukko, Mikko and Greta van Buylaere. The Political Correspondence
of Esarhaddon. State Archives of Assyria XVI. Helskinki: Helsinki
University Press, 2002.
- Beckman, Gary. Hittite Diplomatic Texts. SBL Writings
from the Ancient World 7. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
- Hoffner, Harry A., Jr. Hittite Myths. SBL Writings
from the Ancient World 2. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
- Singer, Ithamar. Hittite Prayers. SBL
Writings from the Ancient World 11. Atlanta: SBL, 2002.
- Parker, Simon B. Ugaritic Narrative Poetry. SBL
Writings from the Ancient World 9. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
- Pardee, Simon. Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. SBL Writings from
the Ancient World 10. Atlanta: SBL, 2002.
- * Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature. 3 vols.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973, 1976, 1980.
- Foster, John L. Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
- Foster, John L. Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient
Egyptian Lyric Poetry. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 8. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1995.
- Murnane, William J. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt.
SBL Writings from the Ancient World 5. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
- Wente, Edward. Letters from Ancient Egypt. SBL Writings from
the Ancient World 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
- Moran, William L. The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1992.
- ONLINE: Ancient
Egyptian texts and papyri
- Lindenberger, James M. Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters.
2nd. ed. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 14. Atlanta: SBL, 2003.
- ONLINE: Ecanon
(Bible)
- ONLINE: Achaemenid
Royal Inscriptions (Persian)
- ONLINE: Perseus Digital Library
(Greco-Roman)
- Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.
2 vols. Garden City: Doubleday, 1983.
- Kugel, James L. The Bible As It Was. Cambridge: Belknap,
1997.
Studies of Ancient Rhetoric
(alphabetical):
- Brown, Peter R. L. Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards
a Christian Empire. Madison, WI: U. of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
- Binkley, Roberta A. “The Rhetoric of Origins and the Other:
Reading the Ancient Figure of Enheduanna,” RBBG 47-63.
- Carr, David M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of
Scripture and Literature. New York: Oxford, 2005.
- Dozeman, Thomas B. “OT Rhetorical Criticism.” Anchor
Bible Dictionary. Ed. D. N. Freedman. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
5:712-15.
- Duke, Rodney K. The Persuasive Appeal of the Chronicler. A Rhetorical
Analysis. Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement
series 88. Sheffield: Almond, 1990.
- Duke, Rodney K. "The Strategic Use of the Enthymeme and Example
in the Argumentation of the Book of Chronicles." In Rhetorical
Argumentation in Biblical Texts, ed. A. Eriksson, T. H. Olbricht,
and W. Ubelacker. Harrisburg: Trinity, 2002. 127-140.
- Enos, Richard Leo. “The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern
Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical Rhetoric,” RBBG
183-96.
- Fox, Michael V. “Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric.” Rhetorica
1 (1983) 9-22.
- Gitay, Y. Prophecy and Persuasion: A Study of Isaiah 40-48.
Bonn: Linguistica Biblica, 1981.
- Hallo, William H. "The Birth of Rhetoric." RBBG 24-46.
- Hess, Richard S. “Smitten Ants Bite Back: Rhetorical Forms in
the Amarna Correspondence from Shechem.” Verse in Ancient
Near Eastern Prose. Ed. J. C. de Moor and W. G. E. Watson. Neukirchen-Vluyn:
Neukirchener Verlag, 1993. 95-111
- Hoskisson, Paul Y. and and Grant M. Boswell, “Neo-Assyrian Rhetoric:
The Example of the Third Campaign of Sennacherib (704-681 BC),”
RBBG 65-78.
- Howard, D. M. “Rhetorical Criticism in Biblical Studies.”
Bulletin for Biblical Research 4 (1994) 87-104.
- Hutto, David. "Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric in the Old and Middle
Kingdoms." Rhetorica 20/3 (2002) 213-33.
- Judge, Edwin A. “The Rhetoric of Inscriptions.” Handbook
of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C. – A.D.
400. Ed. S. E. Porter. Leiden: Brill, 1997. 808.
- Lenchak, Timothy A. "Choose Life!": A Rhetorical-Critical
Investigation of Deuteronomy 28,69-30,20. Analecta Biblica 129.
Rome: Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1993.
- Lipson, Carol S. “Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down
to Maat,” RBBG 79-97.
- Metzger, David. “Pentateuchal Rhetoric and the Voice of the
Aaronides,” RBBG 165-81.
- Moran, William L. “UET 6, 402: Persuasion in the Plain Style.”
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 22 (1993) 113-120.
- Newsom, Carol A. “Kenneth Burke Meets the Teacher of Righteousness:
Rhetorical Strategies in the Hodayot and the Serek Ha-Yahad.”
In H. W. Attridge, J, J. Collins, and T. H. Tobin, S.J. (eds.), Of
Scribes and Scrolls: Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism,
and Christian Origins presented to John Strugnell. College Theology
Society Resources in Religion 5. Lanham, MD: University Press of America,
1990. Pp. 121-131.
- O’Connor, M. “The Rhetoric of the Kilamuwa Inscription.”
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 226 (April
1977) 15-29.
- Patrick, Dale and Allan Scult. Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation.
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 82. Sheffield:
Almond, 1990.
- Patrick, Dale. The Rhetoric of Revelation in the Hebrew Bible.
Overtures to Biblical Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.
- Poster, Carol. "The Economy of Letter Writing in Graeco-Roman
Antiquity." In Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts,
ed. A. Eriksson, T. H. Olbricht, and W. Ubelacker. Harrisburg: Trinity,
2002. 112-124.
- Redford, Donald. “Scribe and Speaker.” In Ehud ben Zvi
and Michael H. Floyd [eds.], Writings and Speech in Israelite and
Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy. SBL Symposium. Atlanta: SBL, 2000.
145-218.
- Renz, Thomas. The Rhetorical Function of the Book of Ezekiel.
Leiden: Brill, 1999.
- Romilly, J. de. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.
- Schniedewind, William H. “Orality and Literacy in Ancient Israel.”
Religious Studies Review 26/4 (2000) 327-32.
- Swearingen, C. Jan. “Song to Speech: The Origins of Early Epitaphia
in Ancient Near Eastern Women’s Lamentations,” RBBG
213-25.
- Sweeney, Deborah. “Law, Rhetoric, and Gender in Ramesside Egypt,”
RBBG 99-113.
- Thomas, Rosalind. Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Trible, Phyllis. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Overtures
to Biblical Theology Series. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978.
- Trible, Phyllis. Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method and the
Book of Jonah. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
- Watts, James W. Reading Law: The Rhetorical Shaping of the Pentateuch.
Biblical Seminar 59. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.
- Watts, James W. “Ritual Rhetoric in Ancient Near Eastern Texts,”
forthcoming.
- Watts, James W. “Ritual Rhetoric in the Pentateuch: The Case
of Leviticus 1-16,” in Colloquium Biblicaum Lovaniense 2006:
Leviticus and Numbers, ed. Thomas Römer, Beitrage zum Ephemerides
Theologicae Lovanienses, Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming.
- Watts, “Story-List-Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient
Persuasian,” RBBG 197-212.
- Wills, John. “Speaking Arenas of Ancient Mesopotamia.”
Quarterly Journal of Speech 56 (1970) 398-405.
- Zulick, Margaret D. “The Active Force of Hearing: The Ancient
Hebrew Language of Persuasion.” Rhetorica 10 (1992) 367-80.
Comparative Rhetoric:
- Kennedy, George A. Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural
Introduction. New York: Oxford, 1998.
- Lipson, Carol and Roberta Binkley (eds.). Rhetoric Before and
Beyond the Greeks. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.
Theories of Rhetoric and Religion:
- Aristotle. Rhetoric.
Translated by J. H. Freese. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press;
London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
- Bakhtin, Mikhail M. The Dialogic Imagination. Ed. M. Holquist.
Austin: U. of Texas, 1981.
- Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: U. of California,
1969 [1950].
- Burke, Kenneth. The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology.
Berkeley: U. of California, 1970 [1961].
- Combrink, H.J. Bernard. “The Rhetoric of Sacred Scripture.”
In S.E. Porter and T.H. Olbricht (eds.), Rhetoric, Scripture and
Theology (JSNTS 131; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996),
pp. 102-123.
- Jost, Walter and Wendy Olmstead (eds.). Rhetorical Invention and
Religious Inquiry. New Haven: Yale, 2000.
- Kennedy, George A. Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular
Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill, NC: U. of
North Carolina Press, 1999.
- O'Banion, John D. Reorienting Rhetoric: the Dialectic of List
and Story. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press,
1992.
- Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the
Word. London: Methuen, 1982.
- de Romilly, Jacqueline. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1975.
- Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics
of Biblical Studies. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.
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