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13 studies on Greek-speaking preachers and audiences in a period from the beginning of the second century A.D. to the beginning of the tenth century cover themes including the identity of Greek-speaking preachers, the circumstances of delivery, the different genres of homiletic, the adaptation of the tropes of Classical rhetoric by Christian preachers, the subject matter of sermons, exegetical approaches, the preparation, redaction and transmission of sermons, the audiences for sermons and their composition, the location and circumstances of preaching, and the interaction between preacher and audience. Each chapter is accompanied by a summary biblography of the most important primary source and secondary literature.

Book details

• Full title: Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics
• Author: Mary B. Cunningham, Pauline Allen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 370
• EAN: 9789004106819
• ISBN: 9004106812
• ID: 13311524
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Weight: 812 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 166 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: June 1998

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