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This study argues that the rhetorical unit of 2 Corinthians 3:1–4:6 belongs to the genre of epideictic oratory. The encomiastic proof of 2 Cor 3:1–4:6 magnifies and lauds Paul's new covenant ministry of the Spirit and functions as an implicit appeal to the Corinthians for a comp…

This thesis is concerned with a number of phenomena in ancient oratory and rhetoric connected to <i>limits of speech</i>: being silent, pausing, not treating a topic. All of this can happen either as a matter of incapacity or failure-or deliberately. Research in this particular …

In this thesis, I examine the nature and role of persuasion in Roman politics in the period immediately following the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 B.C. until the capture of the city of Rome by his heir Octavianus in August 43 B.C. The purpose of my thesis is t…