Contributors; 1. Rhetorics in and for a New Millennium; James D. Hester [University of Redlands]; Part One: Mapping New Rhetorics; 2. The Rhetoric of Inquiry; Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza [Harvard University]; 3. Reading Scripture as/for Public Knowledge; Gary D. Salyer [Fuller Theological Seminary]; 4. The Pre-Christian Paul and Rhetoric; Wilhelm Wuellner [Pacific School of Religion]; Part Two: Rhetorical Readings:; Re-Reading the Power of Persuasion; 5. Rhetoric, Culture, and Ideology: Socio-Rhetorical Analysis in the Reading of New Testament Texts; L. Gregory Bloomquist [St. Paul's University]; 6. The Ironic Drama of Matthew 22:15-46; Lewis Leroy (Lee) Snyder [University of Nebraska]; 7. Forged in Fire: A Study of the Generic Dynamics in the Acts of the Apostles; Dale L. Sullivan [North Dakota State University]; 8. Paul and the Rhetoric of Ignorance; Greg Carey [Lancaster Theological Seminary]; 9. Pseudonymity As Rhetoric: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Pauline Pseudepigrapha; Frank W. Hughes; 10. Word as Works: Philosophical Protreptic and the Epistle of James Carol Poster.