The rhetoric of religion

Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 235-254

  Pernot, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

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EID: 60950717326     PISSN: 07348584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/rh.2006.24.3.235     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. See E. Norden, Agnostos Theos: Untersuchungen zur Formengeschichte religiöser Rede (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner, 1913)
2. Because of the importance of the "word" in Christian theology, academic students of Christianity have been keen to see a discursive dimension (of proclamation and revelation) in the sources. Hence the importance of the method known as "rhetorical analysis" or "rhetorical criticism" in research on the Old and New Testaments. See D. F. Watson and A. J. Hauser, Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible: A Comprehensive Bibliography with Notes on History and Method (Leiden: Brill, 1994)
3. George Kennedy, New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984)
4. Carl Joachim Classen, Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000)
5. A. W. Astell, "Cassiodorus's Commentary on the Psalms as an Ars rhetorica," Rhetorica 17 (1999): 37-75
6. Iliad 14.291, 20.74; Odyssey 10.305, 12.61. On this topic, see L. Radermacher, Artium scriptores (Reste der voraristotelischen Rhetorik) (Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philos.-hist. Kl. 227.3, 1951), 1-3
7. M. Detienne and G. Hamonic, eds., La déesse Parole: Quatre figures de la langue des dieux (Paris: Flammarion, 1994)
8. D. Lau, Wie sprach Gott "Es werde Licht!" Antiken Vorstellungen von der Gottessprache (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003)
9. L. Spina, "Modi divini di nominare gli uomini," in Nommer les dieux: Théonymes, épithètes, épiclèses dans l'Antiquité (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005): 579-584
10. S. Crippa, "Glossolalia. Il linguaggio di Cassandra," Studi italiani di linguistica teorica ed applicata 19 (1990): 487-508
11. "La voce e la visione. Il linguaggio oracolare femminile," in I. Chirassi Colombo and T. Seppilli, eds., Sibille e linguaggi oracolari: Mito, storia, tradizione (Pisa: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 1998), 159-189
12. "Entre vocalité et écriture: les voix de la Sibylle et les rites vocaux des magiciens," in C. Batsch, U. Egelhaag-Gaiser, and R. Sepper, eds., Zwischen Krise und Alltag: Antike Religionen im Mittelmeerraum (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999), 95-110
13. On this example and the following ones, see L. Pernot, "Prière et rhétorique," in L. Calboli Montefusco, ed., Papers on Rhetoric 3 (Bologna: Clueb, 2000), 213-232
14. "Les Discours Sacrés d'Aelius Aristide entre médecine, religion et rhétorique," Atti dell' Accademia Pontaniana, N. S. 51 (2002): 369-383
15. "Au-delà de Babel: le langage de la louange et de la prière," Millenium. Jahrbuch zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr., 2 (2005): 63-77
16. This difference is brilliantly emphasized and explained in the recent book of G. G. Stroumsa, La fin du sacrifice: Les mutations religieuses de l'Antiquité tardive (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005)
17. See A.-J. Festugière, "A propos des arétalogies d'Isis," Harvard Theological Review 42 (1949): 220-228. As Festugière showed, there is a development in paganism from the long mythological narrative that characterized epic hymns (Homeric hymns) to a form that consists in the abstract description of the power of the god, through his actions and his good deeds, and which triumphed after the classical period. It is this form that we find in the texts of the New Testament
18. G. Anderson, Philostratus: Biography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century A.D. (London: Croom Helm, 1986), 142
19. P. Brown, "The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity," Journal of Roman Studies 61 (1971): 80-101
20. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (London: Faber, 1982)
21. See also L. Bieler, Theios aner: Das Bild des "Göttlichen Menschen" in Spätantike und Früchristentum (Wien: Höfels, 1935-1936)
22. G. Anderson, Sage, Saint and Sophist: Holy Men and their Associates in the Early Roman Empire (London: Routledge, 1994)
23. Greek text: B. Keil, Aelii Aristidis Smyrnaei quae supersunt omnia 2 (Berlin: Weidmann, 1898): 376-467
24. English translation: C. A. Behr, P. Aelius Aristides, The Complete Works 2 (Leiden: Brill, 1981): 278-353
25. The Sacred Tales were studied with notable results by two great experts on ancient religious mentalities: see E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951), chap. 4
26. Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965), chap. 2
27. A. J. Festugière, Personal Religion Among the Greeks (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954), chap. 6
28. F. De Martino and A. H. Sommerstein, eds., Studi sull'eufemismo (Bari: Levante, 1999)
29. S. Montiglio, Silence in the Land of Logos (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)