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Elements of Rhetoric

Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

Richard Whately. Edited with a Critical Introduction by Douglas Ehninger. Foreword by David Potter.

Southern Illinois University Press, 1963

Direct, comprehensive, well organized, simple in statement, Elements of Rhetoric is in all respects well fitted to fulfill its assigned role as a textbook. The remarks on practical problems and the examples and analogies confirm contemporary reports that Whately was himself a talented and stimulating teacher.

The modern field of speech was born near the beginning of the twentieth century, some seventy years after Whately wrote. But influential leaders in the new field endorsed Whately’s judgments, and courses and textbooks in public address have remained strongly influenced by his ideas. Whately’s views on a number of major questions in rhetoric have proved sound and fruitful during many decades of practice, and his book remains one of the most influential works on the subject.

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From Scotland to Silverado

Comprising The Amature Emigrant: "From the Clyde to Sandy Hook," "Across the Plains," The Silverado Squatters, and Four Essays on California

Robert Lewis Stevenson

Harvard University Press

The Rabbula Corpus

Comprising the Life of Rabbula, His Correspondence, a Homily Delivered in Constan

Robert R. Phenix Jr.

SBL Press, 2017

A significant new study of Rabbula and Christianity in Edessa

This volume makes available for the first time both the Syriac text and an English translation of every available original composition by Rabbula, the controversial bishop of Edessa (ca. 411–435 CE). It includes a new edition of the Life of Rabbula and other biographical traditions about him, including his conversion from paganism to Christianity. The texts collected in the volume are a valuable source for studying the reception history of biblical themes. In addition, the corpus offers insights into the beginnings of ecclesiastical legislation in the East, charitable work, pilgrimage, ascetic ideals, and church administration. Horn and Phenix examine Rabbula’s contribution to the Christological controversies of the fifth and sixth centuries, including his influence on Cyril of Alexandria in his debate with Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Theodore of Mopsuestia.

Features

A critical study of the theological, cultural, and historical development of Syriac Christianity
Thorough historical, theological, and socio-cultural analysis provided for each text
A previously unidentified Christian Palestinian Aramaic fragment

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