By Gary D. Salyer
Useless Rhetoric explores how Ecclesiastes manipulates a variety of options from the arsenal of ambiguity to speak the strengths and obstacles of either deepest perception and public wisdom. The booklet of Ecclesiastes, like many historical and glossy first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical method produces either attractiveness of, and suspicion in the direction of, the main positions argued via the writer. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes the persuasive and dissuasive houses of the narrator's strange characterization. It additionally describes how the booklet of Ecclesiates, with its plentiful use of rhetorical questions, consistent gapping concepts, and different thoughts from the arsenal of ambiguity, is a gorgeous testimony to the ability of some of the suggestions of indirection to speak to the reader anything of his or her personal rhetorical liabilities and barriers, in addition to these of the spiritual group usually.
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See also Childs' Introduction in which he systematically applied these insights to the various First Testament writings. My only caveat to his axiomatic observations is that I would argue that the various reading strategies generated by the canonical process are not due to an effect on the text (see Childs, Introduction, pp. 75-76), but are rather due to the effect o/the text on the community's reading conventions. The canonical process is a prime example of textual distanciation and how the semantic autonomy of the text, as an effect of textuality, has given us the gift of a scripture which has addressed future generations for millenia.
N. Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (New York: Harvest/ Harcourt Brace Janovich Publishers, 1982), p. 3. 30 Vain Rhetoric 2. Reading Scripture as Sacred Text Requires Different Assumptions and Interests The interpretation of a text necessarily follows upon the assumptions one makes about texts in general. Previous generations of biblical scholars worked with referential assumptions about texts. Texts were thereby treated as windows to another age. If given enough coaxing and historicist 'scrubbing', any text was expected to become transparent, giving a full view of both the author and his or her historical situation.
Vorster, Text and Reality: Aspects of Reference in Biblical Texts (SBLSS; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985), pp. 3-25 (23). 45. B. Lategan, 'Reference: Reception, Redescription, and Realty', in Lategan and Vorster, Text and Reality: Aspects of Reference in Biblical Texts (SBLSS; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985), pp. 67-93 (87-91). For his treatment of Mt. 23 as it relates to the problem of fiction in biblical historiography, see 'Some Unresolved Methodological Issues', pp. 17-25. 46. Lategan, 'Reference', p.
