The parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16.19-31) and Graeco-Roman rhetoric / Frank W. Hughes -- Mass communication and prose rhythm in Luke-Acts / Folker Siegert -- Rhetorical issue and rhetorical strategy in Luke 10.25-37 and Acts 10.1-11.18 / J. Ian H. McDonald -- The end of Acts (28.16-31) and the rhetoric of silence / Daniel Marguerat -- Early Christianity as a p̀ersuasive campaign' / James J. Murphy -- The theoretical justification for application of rhetorical categories to Pauline epistolary literature / Stanley E. Porter
Amplificatio in the macro-structure of Romans / David Hellholm -- Strategies of persuasion in Romans 1.16-17 / Johannes N. Vorster -- The hyperbolic sublime as a master trope in Romans / Marc Schoeni -- Rethinking the rhetorical situration / Dennis L. Stamps -- Argument and genre of 1 Corinthians 12-14 / Joop Smit -- Paul's rhetorical strategy in 1 Corinthians 15 / Duane F. Watson -- Speaking like a fool / Glenn Holland -- St Paul's epistles and ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric / C. Joachim Classen -- Using ancient rhetorical categories to interpret Paul's letters / Jeffrey T. Reed
Persuasion in Philippians 4.1-20 / A.H. Synman -- Philippians 2.6-11 / Claudio Basevi and Juan Chapa -- Paul's ethical appeal in Philippians / John W. Marshall -- Hebrews as amplification / Thomas H. Olbricht -- Rhetorical criticism, new form criticism and New Testament hermeneutics / Klaus Berger -- Textual space as rhetorical device / Bernard Lategan -- The verbal art of the Pauline letters / Pieter J.J. Botha -- The dancing of an attitude / Jeffrey A. Crafton -- Rhetoric and culture / Vernon K. Robbins
On studying ethical argumentation and persuasion in the New Testament / Lauri Thurén -- Rhetoric and hermeneutic, on a rhetorical pattern / Angelico-Salvatore di Marco -- Biblical exegesis in the light of the history and historicity of rhetoric and the nature of the rhetoric of religion / Wilhelm Wuellner
