Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Rhetoric/ Rhetoricality, and Discourse Performances 1
6. The Rhetoric of Social Construction 27
7. Melito of Sardis, the Second Sophistic, and "Israel" 49
8. Early Christian Heroes and Lukan Narrative 75
9. Can Nympha Rule This House? 99
10. "Raised from the Dung" 121
11. Philosophical Counsel versus Customary Lament in Fourth-Century Christian Responses to Death 161
12. Performativity, Narrativity, and Cognition 187
13. Feeling Persuaded 219
14. Index 249
15. Series Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses 259