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撮要

釋經學中的修辭分析法被重新發現(事實上是重新創作)，實應視為修辭批判學及其與聖經設釋經學關係之歷史的一部分，這歷史既漫長又盛衰交替。在後現代理論與應用中的修辭批判學的主要特徵，跟晚古時期以來的修辭傳統迴異。新興的修辭理論和應用提出如下問題：為何這方法不只是芸芸釋經法外的又一種而已?它與其他釋經法有何關係?又為何它是一獨立學科?本文的最後兩部分討論聖經研究中兩個批判學所忽略的範圍：一是修辭學與宗教不可分割的關係，另一是修辭學與有關學科的密切關係。聖經每部分都有修辭技巧，運用修辭學來研究聖經是最好不過的，不但如此，修辭學更是所有批判性學術研究的核心。

ABSTRACT

The rediscovered, indeed reinvented, discipline of rhetorical analysis in biblical exegesis should be viewed as part of the long and chequered history of rhetorical criticism and its relation to biblical hermeneutics. The main features of the postmodern theories and practices of rhetorical criticism differ from rhetorical traditions since late antiquity. Emerging rhetorical theories and practices raise such issues as why this approach to biblical exegesis is really more than just one more method among others; what its relation is to other exegetical methods; and why it has its own integrity. The article’s final two sections deal with two neglected areas of critical study: the constitutive relation between rhetoric and religion; and the inescapable relation between rhetoric and shared scholarship. Rhetoric is perceived as not only in all parts of Sacred Scripture, but also at the core of all critical scholarship.

原載於《建道學刊》4期（1995年7月），頁73-96。