Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF RHETORIC -- Rhetoric -- Universal rhetoric or strategic communication -- Oratory -- Graeco-Roman rhetoric -- Graeco-Roman handbook rhetoric -- Rhetor (Latin: Orator) -- Rhetorician -- Species -- Taxis (Latin: Dispositio) -- Topoi (Latin: Topica) -- 3 METHODS OF RHETORICAL ANALYSIS AND GALATIANS -- Sources -- History of rhetorical approaches to Galatians -- Prehistory -- History of use in Galatians -- Analytical presuppositions -- Conformity to Graeco-Roman rhetoric -- Handbooks interpret figures found anywhere -- All literature is rhetorical -- Intrinsic and extrinsic approaches -- Goals and analytical questions -- Readings of Galatians -- Methods of analysis -- Betz: an implicit method -- Kennedy: an explicit method -- Longenecker: merging of methods -- 4 RHETORICAL STRUCTURE AND GALATIANS -- Galatians 1-2 -- The exordium -- The narratio -- The propositio -- Galatians 3-4 -- Galatians 5-6 -- Conclusion -- 5 RHETORICAL SPECIES AND GALATIANS -- The limits of forensic rhetoric -- The limits of deliberative rhetoric -- The limits of epideictic rhetoric -- The limits of rhetoric and Galatians -- Galatians as a forensic speech -- Galatians as deliberative rhetoric -- Subsequent solutions to the question of species -- Galatians as mixed rhetoric -- Galatians as epideictic rhetoric -- Conclusion -- 6 THE LANGUAGE OF PAUL'S LETTERS: 1. AS EVALUATED BY EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITERS -- The church fathers -- Greek fathers -- Latin fathers -- Other early Christians -- Post-patristic 'rhetoricians' -- Conclusion -- 7 THE LANGUAGE OF PAUL'S LETTERS: 2. THE CONTRIBUTION OF MODERN STUDIES -- Acts 24: a courtroom analogy -- Orientation to Paul's background -- The level of Paul's language.

Philologists found Paul to be a lesser writer -- The charge of being uneducated -- Alternative explanations of Paul's language -- Excursus: the activities of the orator -- Language levels were steeply graduated -- Paul's mode of discourse -- Conclusions -- 8 CONCLUSIONS -- Summary -- Implications and significance -- Further study -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Ancient sources -- General bibliography -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS.