Rhetorical analysis is essentially an attempt to clarify our understanding of the biblical text through a study of its literary techniques. Ancient authors often employed these techniques in order to assist readers to understand the message of the text or to persuade them of the truth of the presentation. The interpreter should always allow for the possibility that the rhetorical dimension of the text will bear directly on exegetical questions. Rhetorical criticism is a well – watered garden in which a variety of promising seeds have been planted and where a considerable growth can even now be seen. But to reap any fruit the interpreter must be willing to tarry lovingly in the text; beauty usually eludes the casual observer.
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