Background
Robbins, Vernon Kay was born on March 13, 1939 in Wahoo, Nebraska, United States. Son of Earl Willard and Mildred Irene (Hanson) Robbins.
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New Boundaries in Old Territory: Form and Social Rhetoric in Mark (Emory Studies in Early Christianity)
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New Boundaries in Old Territory exhibits a reformulation of the boundaries of New Testament Studies to bring literary, rhetorical, and social science strategies into the center of research and interpretation. These essays display the development of Robbins' groundbreaking Socio-Rhetorical Criticism, which evaluates New Testament texts in their Jewish and Hellenistic-Roman environments. The innovative vision of Socio-Rhetorical Criticism challenges the interpreter to widen the intertextual boundaries to include the Mediterranean world in which early Christians lived, to widen the social and cultural boundaries to include customs, behaviors, and attitudes of people in Mediterranean society, and to widen the limiting perspectives of contemporary ideological boundaries.
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The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (And Thought. Translation) by Robbins, Vernon K. (1996) Paperback
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Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations 1st edition by Robbins, Vernon K. (1996) Paperback
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Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations
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Socio-rhetorical criticism has established itself as one of the promising new methods of biblical study today. Vernon K. Robbins here provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories.An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the texts we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow chapters on getting inside a text (inner texture), that is, studying the internal aspects of words and meanings in the text: entering the interactive world of the test (intertexture,), that is relating the text being interpreted to a wide range of phenomena that lie outside the text: living with the text in the world (social and cultural texture), that is, examining the social and cultural locations in the world that the language of the text evokes: and shared interests in commentary and in the text (ideological texture), that is, looking at the way the text itself and interpreters of the text position themselves in relation to other individuals and groups.Texts studied include the rich man and Jesus in Mark 10:17-22 (inner texture): the Pentecost event in Acts 2 (intertexture): the woman who anointed Jesus in Luke 7:36-50 and John 9 (social and cultural texture): the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40 and “women keep silent” in 1 Corinthians 14: 26-40 (ideological texture).Vernon K. Robbins is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion, Emory University, and the author of Ancient Quotes and Anecdotes: From Crib to Crypt and The Rhetoric of Pronouncement.
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The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (And Thought. Translation)
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This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz' anthropological concept of thick description. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. In this manner, multiple methods of interpretation are used in an organized and programmatic way, allowing the reader insights into the development of early Christianity. In this study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christanity. This book investigates Christianity as a cultural phenomenon, and treats its canonical texts as ideological constructs.
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Ancient Quotes & Anecdotes - From Crib to Crypt (Conduct of Life, Quotations, Maxims, Early Works to 1800 - Aphorisms and Apothegms-- Early Works to 1800) - Paperback - 1989 Edition
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493 pages
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- New Boundaries in Old Territory: Form and Social Rhetoric in Mark (Worcester Polytechnic Institute Studies in Science, Technolo) by Vernon K. Robbins (1994-08-01)
- Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels by Burton L. Mack (1989-03-03) (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations by Vernon K. Robbins (1996-11-01)
- Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations by Vernon K. Robbins (1996-11-01)
- Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark ("This book makes an important, indeed a groundbreaki...)
- The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (And Thought. Translation) by Vernon K. Robbins (1996-10-10)
Vernon Kay Robbins
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Westmar College, 1960; Bachelor's Degree, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, 1963; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1969.
Career
Assistant professor religion and classics, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1968-1975; associate professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1975-1984; director religious studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1978-1981; professor religion, Emory University, Atlanta, since 1984; department chairman classics, Emory University, Atlanta, 1985-1986; department chairman religion, Emory University, Atlanta, 1988-1989; department chairman Near Eastern Judaic languages and literature, Emory University, Atlanta, 1991-1992.
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New Boundaries in Old Territory: Form and Social Rhetoric in Mark (Emory Studies in Early Christianity)
(New Boundaries in Old Territory exhibits a reformulation ...)
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The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (And Thought. Translation)
(This study establishes a concept of culture and then comb...)
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Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations
(Socio-rhetorical criticism has established itself as one ...)
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Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark
("This book makes an important, indeed a groundbreaking, c...)
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Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels by Burton L. Mack (1989-03-03)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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Ancient Quotes & Anecdotes - From Crib to Crypt (Conduct of Life, Quotations, Maxims, Early Works to 1800 - Aphorisms and Apothegms-- Early Works to 1800) - Paperback - 1989 Edition
(493 pages)
- New Boundaries in Old Territory: Form and Social Rhetoric in Mark (Worcester Polytechnic Institute Studies in Science, Technolo) by Vernon K. Robbins (1994-08-01)
- The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (And Thought. Translation) by Robbins, Vernon K. (1996) Paperback
- Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations 1st edition by Robbins, Vernon K. (1996) Paperback
- Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations by Vernon K. Robbins (1996-11-01)
- Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretations by Vernon K. Robbins (1996-11-01)
- The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (And Thought. Translation) by Vernon K. Robbins (1996-10-10)
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New Boundaries in Old Territory: Form and Social Rhetoric in Mark (Emory Studies in Early Christianity)
Membership
Member Studiorum Novi Testament Societas (editorial board 1990-1994), Society Biblical Literature (editorial board, director pronouncement stories work group 1981-1987, chairman rhetoric and New Testament section 1990-1996), Catholic Biblical Association, Chicago Society for Biblical Research, International Society for History of Rhetoric, Fulbright Alumni Association.
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Married Deanna Shirley Moritz, August 6, 1960. Children: Rick Anthony, Chimene Alise.
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American
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1960
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1968 - 1975
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Research fellow Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1975, Society Biblical Literature-Claremont Fellowship, 1981, Fulbright Research fellow University Trondheim (Norway), 1983-1984.Research fellow Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1975, Society Biblical Literature-Claremont Fellowship, 1981, Fulbright Research fellow University Trondheim (Norway), 1983-1984.