Retoryka i socjoretoryka w lekturze tekstów Nowego Testamentu. Cz. 1: Retoryka i nowe podejście do tradycji ustnej
Rhetorical and Socio-Rhetorical Reading of New Testament Texts. Part I: Rhetoric and the New Approach to Oral Tradition

Summary/Abstract: In the present article, the author argues for the usefulness and importance ofrhetoric and socio-rhetoric for the reading of the New Testament texts. Part I is dedicatedto the rhetorical approach. The point of departure are the remarks of the Pontifical BiblicalCommission on the questionable rhetorical education of biblical authors, on may kindsof rhetoric, and on the limited applicability of rhetoric to the analysis of biblical text.The author answers the objections raised against the rhetorical method and argues forthe use of Greco-Roman rhetoric as the compositional instrument closest to the culturalmilieu of the New Testament authors. The Greco-Roman rhetoric presents itself as thebest tool to explore the texture of biblical writings characterized by high residual orality.To substantiate it, the author shows the recent change of paradigm in the approach to theoral tradition and textuality in the Bible. Part I of the article finishes with the elaborationand exposition of the basic steps of rhetorical analysis proposed by George A. Kennedy.

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