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Book SynopsisIn Speech-in-Character, Diatribe, and Romans 3:1-9, Justin King argues that the rhetorical skill of speech-in-character (prosopopoiia, sermocinatio, conformatio) offers a methodologically sound foundation for understanding the script of Paul’s imaginary dialogue with an interlocutor in Romans 3:1-9. King focuses on speech-in-character’s stable criterion that attributed speech should be appropriate to the characterization of the speaker. Here, speech-in-character helps to inform which voice in the dialogue speaks which lines, and the general goals of diatribe help shape how an “appropriate” understanding of the script is best interpreted. King’s analyses of speech-in-character, diatribe, and Romans, therefore, make independent contributions while simultaneously working together to advance scholarship on a much debated passage in one of history’s most important texts.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables 1 Introduction Staging the Project Methodology Significance An Outline: A Preview to the Project Part 1: Speech-in-Character Introduction to Part 1 2 Speech-in-Character in the Rhetorical Handbooks Pseudo-Cicero: Rhetorica ad Herennium Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria Summary: Ad Herennium and Quintilian on Speech-in-Character 3 Speech-in-Character in the Progymnasmata Theon: Προγυμνάσματα [Hermogenes]: Προγυμνάσματα Summary: Theon and [Hermogenes] on Speech-in-Character 4 Speech-in-Character: A Synthesis Core Conventions of Speech-in-Character Unique Features of Speech-in-Character 5 Examples of Speech-in-Character in Paul Examples of Speech-in-Character in Paul Conclusion Part 2: Diatribe Introduction to Part 2 6 Portrayals of Diatribe Conclusion 7 Examples of Diatribal Dialogue Introduction Dialogue and Attributed Speech in Primary Sources for Diatribe Conclusions Part 3: Romans 3:1–9 Introduction to Part 3 8 Traditional Readings of the Dialogue in Rom 3:1–9 and Its Role in the Letter Pre-Bultmannian Readings of Romans 3:1–9 Diatribal Readings that Affirm the Traditional Script of Romans 3:1–9 Preliminary Conclusions 9 Rescriptive Readings of the Dialogue in Romans 3:1–9 and Its Role in the Letter Non-Diatribal Critique of Traditional Readings Rescriptive Readings of the Dialogue of Romans 3:1–9 Preliminary Conclusions 10 Romans 1–2: The Ethnically Inclusive and Impartial Gospel and the Characterization of the Interlocutor Romans 1:1–12 Romans 1:13–15 Romans 1:16–17 Romans 1:18–32 Romans 2 Romans 2:1–11 Romans 2:12–16 Romans 2:17–29 11 Romans 3:1–9 and the Argument of Romans Romans 3:1–9 Romans 3:1–9 and the Remainder of Romans Conclusion 12 Conclusion Bibliography Index
