Tag: Enthymeme

How to Understand Paul’s Hermeneutic through Aristotle’s Rhetoric
Rhetoric and hermeneutics share much in common. So, Aristotle’s enthymeme proves helpful for understanding Paul’s scriptural interpretation.
20 March 2023
Aune on enthymemes in New Testament scholarship
In a helpful 2003 essay, David Aune discusses “the use and abuse of the enthymeme in New Testament scholarship” (New Testament Studies 49, no. 3, 299–320). According to the article’s abstract, Though the enthymeme is usually defined as a truncated syllogism, that definition does not go back to Aristotle. By the first century CE there…
25 August 2017

How to Understand Paul’s Hermeneutic through Aristotle’s Rhetoric