James D. Hester, Professor of Religion, Emeritus, and Research Professor, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA. Co-Director, The Rhetorical New Testament Project, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont, CA. Editor, Rhetorics and Hermeneutics: Wilhelm Wuellner and His Influence, New York: Continuum, 2004. J. David Hester, independent scholar. Co-Director, The Rhetorical New Testament Project, Institute forAntiquity and Christianity, Claremont, CA. Editor, Rhetorics and Hermeneutics: Wilhelm Wuellner and His Influence, New York: Continuum, 2004.

• Contributors1. Rhetorics in and for a New MillenniumJames D. Hester [University of Redlands] Part One: Mapping New Rhetorics2. The Rhetoric of InquiryElisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza [Harvard University] 3. Reading Scripture as/for Public KnowledgeGary D. Salyer [Fuller Theological Seminary] 4. The Pre-Christian Paul and RhetoricWilhelm Wuellner [Pacific School of Religion] Part Two: Rhetorical Readings:Re-Reading the Power of Persuasion5. Rhetoric, Culture, and Ideology: Socio-Rhetorical Analysis in the Reading of New Testament TextsL. Gregory Bloomquist [St. Paul's University] 6. The Ironic Drama of Matthew 22:15-46Lewis Leroy (Lee) Snyder [University of Nebraska] 7. Forged in Fire: A Study of the Generic Dynamics in the Acts of the ApostlesDale L. Sullivan [North Dakota State University] 8. Paul and the Rhetoric of IgnoranceGreg Carey [Lancaster Theological Seminary]9. Pseudonymity As Rhetoric: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Pauline PseudepigraphaFrank W. Hughes 10. Word as Works: Philosophical Protreptic and the Epistle of JamesCarol Poster