Bruce Mccomiskey

Gebundenes Buch

Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Bruce McComiskey is a professor of rhetoric and writing and director of the Center for Rhetoric in Society in the English department at Virginia Tech University. His books include Teaching Composition as a Social Process (2000), Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric (2002), Dialectical Rhetoric (2015), Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition (2017), and Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran (2021). He is editor of English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) (2006) and Microhistories of Composition (2016) and is coeditor of City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices (2003).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780271090153
• ISBN-10: 0271090154
• Artikelnr.: 60314750