Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Bruce Mccomiskey

Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Bruce Mccomiskey

Investigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts.

“This is an intriguing study by a non-specialist in the field that will be profitable for students of the Scrolls interested in the role of rhetoric”

—Daniel M. Gurtner Religious Studies Review

“Religious historians looking for examples of rhetorical case studies on ancient Jewish texts and rhetoricians looking for an introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls will find this a valuable book.”

—Robert M Royalty, Jr. Rhetorica

“Bruce McComiskey is the first in rhetorical studies to conduct a systematic reading of seven Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts, examining how identification, distinction, persuasion, performative strategies, dissociation, and ideas about material rhetorics are present and enacted through these manuscripts. In doing so, he makes an important case for the rhetorical significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as the methodological utility of a hermeneutics/rhetoric approach for reading these texts.”

—Jim Ridolfo, author of Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities

Bruce McComiskey is Professor of English and Director of Professional Writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Teaching Composition as a Social Process; Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric; Dialectical Rhetoric; and Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition.

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ISBN 13	9780271090153
ISBN 10	0271090154
Title	Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author	Bruce Mccomiskey
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2021-04-26
Number of pages	242
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