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73 Cards in this Set
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Identify two ways of groupings paul's letters
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Traditional categories and Modern categories
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Identify the divisions within the Modern Categories of classifying Paul's letters
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proto-pauline (genuine), deutero-pauline, and trito-pauline.
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Identify the divisions within the Traditional categories
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Early, Great, Captivity, and Pastoral
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Identify Paul's earliest letter and when i was probably written
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1 Thessalonian, 50-55 AD
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Explain why, beginning with St. Augustine, there were questions about the Pauline authorship of Hebrews
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1. It is written more as a sermon than a letter
2. It has a theology which is different from Pauline theology contained in other letters. 3. Paul is not mentioned in the letter. |
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Explain what distinguishes Paul’s letter to the Romans from the other letters he composed
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longest, theology most mature, written to a church he did not found
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Identify some major themes in the letters of St. Paul
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– flesh vs. spirit, in Christ, Old Law/New Law, baptism, Sonship, Justification/righteousness, Christ CrucifiedTM (main theme)
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Identify some of the details of the life of Paul that agree with information provided by Paul’s own letters
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persecuted the Christians, conversion experience, Paul did not require the Gentiles to be circumcised, Paul founded local churches
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Identify some minor discrepancies between Acts and the Pauline letters concerning Paul’s life
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- Pharisee(past in letters, present in Acts), basket daring escape from Damascus from King Aretas(Cor) or from the Jews (Acts), reasons for quarrel between Paul and Barnabus are different
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Identify some material from Acts that is unparalleled in Paul’s letters
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Paul spending time in Arabia, involvement in stoning of Stephen, Matthias to replace Judas, and lots of people named
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Identify a principle that has won wide acceptance concerning how to use the Pauline letters and Acts of the Apostles as sources
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- Letters primary and Acts to supplement but not correct (named method?)
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Define the hardship catalogues and indicate what they contain
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various trials and sufferings he underwent for the sake of the faith (stoning, prison, ridicule, shipwreck, persecution, scourging, starvation, nakedness, sleepless nights, worry about churches)
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St. John Chrysostom’s concern about the Pauline corpus
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some people don’t know it as well as they ought to(grieved and pained that all do not know the man Paul)
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Identify three scholarly opinions regarding how we should the Letters of Paul and the Acts of the Apostles as sources –
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1) complete trust in Acts 2) complete distrust in Acts 3) letters as primary w/ Acts supplement but never correct
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Identify five events in Paul’s career as recounted in Acts of the Apostles that correspond with extrabiblical data
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- Pro-consul Gallo, Expulsion of Jews from Rome, famine in reign of Claudius, Porcius Festus succeeded Felix as procurator of Judea, recall of Pontius Pilate to Rome to account for failure
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Explain various backgrounds on the names of Saul and Paul
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Saul – king Saul Paul – in Latin means ‘small’, two similar sounding names were common for Diaspora Jews, could indicate before and after conversion
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–Identify the term for two like sounding names
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homophone
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Identify other individuals in the NT who have two names (binomials
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– Simon/Peter, John/Mark, Thaddeus/Judas, Thomas/Didymus
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Explain how St. Augustine believes the name Paul was chosen for the apostle
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because of the Latin meaning small as Paul thought himself least of the apostles, because of Paul’s small stature(?)
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Identify the tradition concerning Paul’s family as derived from St. Jerome
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born in Gischala Galilee, captured by Roman soldiers, family sold as slaves in Tarsus
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Identify information about members of Paul’s family as contained in Acts of the Apostles
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a sister and her son
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Identify the background of Paul’s heritage from the tribe of Benjamin
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beloved of God, youngest son, had a shrine for the Ark of the Covenant
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Identify various possibilities related to Paul’s marital status
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never married (some rabbis, Jesus, Jeremiah), widower, divorced (and angry!)
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Identify aspects of the history and Sitz im Leben of Tarsus
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Augustusfirst called Tarzi in 9thcent BC, great and prosperous city, center of philosophy, known for felt made of goat wool, Greek coins found from 5th and 4th cent BC shows Hellenization, Jews arrived around 171 BC, became capitol of Cilicia under Pompey’s reorganization, Mark Antony granted the city Roman citizenship and was reaffirmed by Augustus giving immunity from imperial taxation
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Identify the rights bequeathed to the citizens of Tarsus by Mark Antony and confirmed by Caesar Augustus
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immunity from taxes, right to a trial, right to be killed by having head chopped off.
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Explain the educational process of young Jews
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educated at home , early education would be reading the Scripture, writing was not always taught w/ reading, begin learning Torah at 5, Mishma at 10, finished at 12 but if particularly bright would go on to study at the feet of a teacher of the law, education often included the craft of the father
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Explain how Paul’s parents might have obtained Roman citizenship
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could have been set free by slave owner and given citizenship as reward for their good service
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Identify a product from Tarsus that might have served Paul well in his missionary travels
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special felt made of goat wool
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Identify how Tarsus was viewed by Strabo and Philostratus
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– Strabo – well known center of culture and learning, most students were local boys, flourishing city. Philostratus – people were addicted to luxury and paid more attention to fine linen than Athenians paid to wisdom
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Identify groups within Judaism at the time of Jesus and Pau
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Sadducees, Pharisees, Zealots, Eseens, Herodians, Samaritans
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Identify main beliefs and practices of the Pharisees in contrast to the Sadducees
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believed oral tradition, read more than the Torah, angles, resurrection, focused on observation of the Law, were not priests
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Identify the main elements of the conversion of St. Paul as recounted in Acts of the Apostles
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on the road to Damascus, saw a great light and fell down, heard a voice “Saul, Saul why do you persecute me?” He was blind afterward, the others with him did not hear the voice, led to Damascus to the home Judas on Strait street where Ananias greets him calling him “brother”, scales fall from his eyes, baptized, ate, regained strength
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Explain Paul’s missionary strategy
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first preach in the synagogues to the Jews and if not successful then preach in the market/forum to the Gentiles
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Identify challenges Paul would have faced in his missionary travels
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wolves, robbers, sun, storms, injury, slow going, worries about the churches he founded, interlopers
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Identify contents of the various hardship catalogues
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shipwrecks, starvation, flogging, constant worry about churches
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Explain the purpose and significance of the collection
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to assist the poor in Jerusalem, brought unity between Jewish and Gentile Christians, material benefit for Jews and spiritual benefit for Gentiles
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Explain the tradition surrounding the martyrdom of St. Paul
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beheaded in Rome around 64 AD, for converting some of Nero’s soldiers
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Identify the source of information about St. Paul’s martyrdom which is widely accepted
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Eusebius’ ecclesiastical history, Diomysius bishop of Corinthians, Origen
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Explain aspects of the Roman imperial postal system
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restricted to government and military communiqué, used mounted riders between highway stations
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Identify the distance Paul is estimated to have covered in the course of his ministry
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6200 miles (way less than Fr Piere DeSmett SJ, St. Louis)
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Identify the methods of writing in the ancient world and indicate the most popular and the least favorite forms
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write yourself, dictate line by line, give scribe sense of it, have someone write in your own way – write yourself and dictation were most common – least popular was word for word
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Identify some of the errors that scribes and copyists can make
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skip lines, copy word twice, writing similar sounding but wrong word, accidental errors due to fatigue or distraction, attempts to fix grammar or smooth harshness of style
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Identify the extent of time needed for each copy of a Pauline letter
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half day to 3 days
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Identify the approximate cost in today’s currency to write the Letter to the Romans
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$2,275
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As a tentmaker, identify the goods St. Paul would have made or repaired
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knife, thread, needle, awl, material
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Identify the characteristics sought in good paper and indicate how paper was prepared for writing
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whiteness, smoothness, fineness
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Explain the use of secretaries in the ancient Greco-Roman world
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recorders, editors, and substitute authors
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If a letter has been written or copied by a secretary, identify the purpose of the concluding paragraph
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to authenticate
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Identify Paul’s secretary for the writing of the Letter to the Romans
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Tercius
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Identify the earliest surviving collection of Paul’s letters
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Chester Beatty
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Explain aspects of the education of secretaries and copyists
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in Greco-Roman world all who went to school learned to write and were trained to take down dictation, was a professional skill
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Identify the purposes of retaining a copy of a letter in one’s personal archives
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control and reference
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Explain which version of the Scriptures did St. Paul use
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Septuagint mostly
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Identify the sources draws on in composing his letters
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Old Testament, tradition, word of mouth, Apostles, Liturgical formula, hymns, historical setting, sports (race, shadow boxing), Greek culture, academics, family life, Greek religion and philosophy, personal revelation
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Explain how St. Paul employs material from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
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employs material to show the Gospel is for the Gentiles as well, fulfillment of messianic promises
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Identify significant liturgical materials developed by early Christian communities
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hymns, creeds
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Identify four types of hymns according to Ralph Martin
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sacramental, meditative, confessional, Christological
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Identify examples of sayings of Jesus that can be discerned in Paul’s letters
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explicit 1Cor 11:23-25; 7:10-11; 9:14, allusion Rom 12:18 – Mark 9:50b
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Explain the process of sending a letter in the ancient Greco-Roman world
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use a carrier or someone going that way, slaves, friend, stranger
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Explain the process of the delivery of a letter in the ancient Christian world
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Colossians names Tychichus as its carrier, could sent a letter back with the person who delivered it
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Identify those who may have carried letters –
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friends, Romans, countrymen (slave, stranger, friend)
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Identify the parts of a Pauline letter
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Introduction w/ greeting and address, Thanksgiving w/ brief glimpse of letter’s content, Body, Conclusion w/ Paul’s signature and/or greetings to individuals
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Identify some theological topics St. Paul treats in his letters
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apostle, Baptism, Christ’s role in salvation history, resurrection, community, conversion, effects of the Christ event
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According to J.A. Fitzmyer, identify the key to Pauline theology
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Christocentric soteriology and the story of the Cross
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Explain Paul’s uses of Christological titles
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Son of God: refers to role of Jesus endowed with a life-giving spirit for the salvation of man, Christos: 2nd name of Jesus used in a titular sense, Kyrios: Jesus’ lordship
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Explain some of the effects of the Christ event according to J.A. Fitzmyer
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expiation, freedom, glorification, justification, reconciliation, redemption, salvation, sanctification, transformation,
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Define rhetoric
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the art of persuasion
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Identify the strengths and weaknesses of rhetorical criticism according to The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church
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Weaknesses: concern for the style only so it needs to be used with another method, synchronic in nature seeing the text only as a finished product rather than over time, can be isogetical causing reading into the text a meaning not intended by the author. Strengths: understand the language and style of persuasion of the day.
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Identify the three types of ancient rhetoric
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deliberative, forensic/judicial, demonstrative/political/display
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Identify the five skills a fully qualified speaker needed to master
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invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery
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Identify the parts of a rhetorical piece
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intro, presentation, proposition, proof, epilogue
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Explain the purpose of a digression in a speech
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allow the listener to rest from intense concentration, a way of wining favor(joke or story)
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Explain how the three types of ancient rhetoric are similar or different
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Deliberative –want people to adopt/repudiate a course of action, persuade/dissuade, future, hearer has to make a decision
Forensic –to ensure justice is done, attack/defend, past, hearer has to make a decision Demonstrative –to celebrate common values by proving someone worthy of honor or not, praise/blame, present, hearer only observes. All have an object, method, a time, audience |
