Course Bibliography: Comparative
Rhetoric, Theories of Rhetoric & Religion, Ancient Rhetoric, Primary
Texts (starred * items are on reserve in Bird Library; for the abbreviations RBBG and ANGR, see the section on Comparative Rhetoric)
Comparative Rhetoric:
- * Kennedy, George A. Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural
Introduction. New York: Oxford, 1998.
- Hauser, Gerard A. "Philosophy and Rhetoric: An Abbreviated History of an Evolving Identity." Philosophy and Religion 40 (2007), 1-14.
- * Lipson, Carol S. and Roberta A. Binkley (eds.). Rhetoric Before and
Beyond the Greeks. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. (= RBBG)
- * Lipson, Carol S. and Roberta A. Binkley (eds.). Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor, 2009. (= ANGR)
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.
- Pernot, Laurent. “The Rhetoric of Religion.” Rhetorica 24/3 (2006): 235–254.
- 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.
Studies of Ancient Rhetoric:
- Baines, John. "Egyptian Letters of the New Kingdom as Evidence for Religious Practice." Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 1 (2001), 1-31.
- Barton, John. "History and Rhetoric in the Prophets." In The Bible as Rhetoric: Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility. Ed. M. Warner. London: Routledge, 1990. 51-64.
- Beard, Mary. "Writing and Religion." In Religions of the Ancient World: a Guide. Ed. S. I. Johnston. Camrbdige, MA: Belknap, 2004. 127-38.
- Beaulieu, Paul-Alain. "Histories: Mesopotamia." In Religions of the Ancient World: a Guide. Ed. S. I. Johnston. Camrbdige, MA: Belknap, 2004. 165-72.
- Binkley, Roberta A. “The Rhetoric of Origins and the Other:
Reading the Ancient Figure of Enheduanna,” RBBG 47-63.
- Binkley, Roberta A. “The Gendering of Prophetic Discourse: Women and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East.” ANGR 67-93.
- Brown, Peter R. L. Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards
a Christian Empire. Madison, WI: U. of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
- * Carr, David M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of
Scripture and Literature. New York: Oxford, 2005.
- Charney, Davida H. “Performativity and Persuasion in the Hebrew Book of Psalms: A Rhetorical Analysis of Psalms 116 and 22.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40/3 (2010), 247-68.
- Collins, John J. "Israel." In Religions of the Ancient World: a Guide. Ed. S. I. Johnston. Camrbdige, MA: Belknap, 2004. 181-88.
- 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.
- Foster, Robert L. and David M. Howard (eds.), My Words Are Lovely: Studies in the Rhetoric of the Psalms. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 467; New York, London: T & T Clark, 2008.
- 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.
- Johnston, Sarah Iles. "Magic." In Religions of the Ancient World: a Guide. Ed. S. I. Johnston. Camrbdige, MA: Belknap, 2004. 139-52.
- 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.
- Katz, Stephen B. “The Hebrew Bible as Another, Jewish Sophistic: A Genesis of Absence and Desire in Ancient Rhetoric.” ANGR 125-50.
- 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.
- Lipson, Carol S. “Rhetoric and Identity: A Study of Ancient Egyptian Non-Royal Tombs and Tomb Autobiographies.” ANGR 94-124.
- McComiskey, Bruce. “Laws, Works, and the End of Days: Rhetorics of Identification, Distinction, and Persuasion in Miqşat Ma'aśeh ha-Torah (Dead Sea Scroll 4QMMT).” Rhetoric Review 29/3 (2010), 221-38.
- Metzger, David. “Pentateuchal Rhetoric and the Voice of the
Aaronides,” RBBG 165-81.
- Metzger, David and Stephen B. Katz. "The “Place” of Rhetoric in Aggadic Midrash." College English 72 (2010), 638-53.
- Mifsud, Mari Lee. "Storytelling as Soul-Tuning: The Ancient Rhetoric of Valmiki's Ramayana." ANGR 223-39.
- 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.
- Niditch, Susan. Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996.
- 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.
- Sanders, Seth. The Invention of Hebrew. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, 2009.
- 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 and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Watts, James W. “Story-List-Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient
Persuasian,” RBBG 197-212.
- Watts, James W. “The Three Dimensions of Scriptures,” Postscripts 2/2 (2006), 135-59.
- Watts, James W. “Oracular Rhetoric,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 35 (2008): 185-95.
- Watts, James W. “Ritual Rhetoric in Ancient Near Eastern Texts,” ANGR 39-66.
- Watts, James W. “Ancient Iconic Texts and the Scholarly Expertise,” Postscripts 6 (2010): forthcoming in 2011.
- Wills, John. “Speaking Arenas of Ancient Mesopotamia.”
Quarterly Journal of Speech 56 (1970) 398-405.
- Wright, David P. "Syria and Canaan." In Religions of the Ancient World: a Guide. Ed. S. I. Johnston. Camrbdige, MA: Belknap, 2004. 173-80.
- Zaeske, Susan. "Unveiling Esther as a Pragmatic Radical Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 33 (2000), 193-220.
- Zulick, Margaret D. “The Active Force of Hearing: The Ancient
Hebrew Language of Persuasion.” Rhetorica 10 (1992) 367-80.
Ancient Near Eastern Texts in
Translation (grouped by original language) :
Multi-cultural anthologies:
- * 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.
- Chevalas, Mark W., ed. The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Sumerian:
- Black, Jeremy, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor
Zólyomi, The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004.
- 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.
- ONLINE: The
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Akkadian:
- * 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.
- 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.
- Glassner, Jean-Jacques. Mesopotamian Chronicles. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 19. Atlanta: SBL, 2004.
- Luukko, Mikko and Greta van Buylaere. The Political Correspondence
of Esarhaddon. State Archives of Assyria XVI. Helskinki: Helsinki
University Press, 2002.
- Michalowski, Piotr. Letters from Early Mesopotamia. SBL Writings
from the Ancient World 3. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.
- Nissinen, Martti. Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East.
SBL Writings from the Ancient World 12. Atlanta: SBL, 2003.
- Roth, Martha T. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 6. Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1995.
Hittite:
- 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.
Ugaritic:
- 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.
- Wyatt, N. Religious Texts from Ugarit. Biblical Seminar 53. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
Egyptian:
- * 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.
- Simpson, William Kelly. The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry. New Haven: Yale, 2003.
- Frood, Elizabeth. Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 26. Atlanta: SBL, 2007.
- Moran, William L. The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1992.
- Murnane, William J. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt.
SBL Writings from the Ancient World 5. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
- Ritner, Robert K. The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 21. Atlanta: SBL, 2009.
- Wente, Edward. Letters from Ancient Egypt. SBL Writings from
the Ancient World 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
- ONLINE: Ancient
Egyptian texts and papyri
Hebrew, Aramaic & Greek:
- Lindenberger, James M. Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters. 2nd. ed. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 14. Atlanta: SBL, 2003.
- Smelik, Klaas A. D. Writings from Ancient Israel: A Handbook of Historical and Religious Documents. Ediburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1991.
- ONLINE: Common English Bible (Bible)
- ONLINE: Perseus Digital Library (Greco-Roman)
- Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 2 vols. Garden City: Doubleday, 1983.
- García Martínez, Florentino and Wilfred G.E. Watson.The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: the Qumran Texts in English. Leiden: Brill, 1994.
- Vermès, Géza, ed. & tr. The Complete Dead Sea scrolls in English. New York: Penguin, 1997.
- Kugel, James L. The Bible As It Was. Cambridge: Belknap,
1997.
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