"Contemporary rhetorical approaches to the biblical text are due in no small measure to the innovative and profound work of the late Professor Wilhelm Wuellner. In this volume of essays, students and colleagues of Wuellner pay tribute to Wuellner's groundbreaking work through a series of stimulating essays exploring the sublime and spiritual healing power of rhetorics in New Testament texts. Following the model of Wuellner's final essay, which is contained in this volume, these essays also reflect Wuellner's own approach to the texts, an approach of both unfeigned humility and scholarly excellence." - L. Gregory Bloomquist, Professor, Faculty of Theology, Saint Paul University
"Rhetorics and Hermeneutics is a fitting tribute to the vision of Wilhelm Wuellner. The essays respond admirably to Wuellner's persistent urging that rhetorical criticism be interdisciplinary and take full advantage of modern rhetoric and related fields of study. The essays are a welcomed advance in our understanding of the interplay between rhetoric and hermeneutics. They clearly demonstrate that rhetorical invention is always a hermeneutical enterprise. In this volume rhetorical criticism has come of age!" -Duane F. Watson, Professor of New Testament Studies, Malone College

Wilhelm Wuellner is the father of rhetorical criticism of the New Testament, and his work has focused on the ever-present relationship between hermeneutics and rhetorics. Together these essays provide not only a fitting tribute to the continuing influence of Wuellner and his work but also original studies of various New Testament texts read through the eyes of rhetorical criticism. Wuellner's work also has had a tremendous impact outside the field of New Testament studies, and this volume reflects his influence on the classical rhetoric.