...a move beyond form criticism to "rhetorical criticism." He said that his primary interest was: ... in exhibiting the structural patterns that are employed...discerning the many and various devices by which the predictions are formulated and ordered into a unified whole. Such an enterprise I should describe as...

...criticism." "What 1 am interested in, above all, is understanding the nature of Hebrew literary composition, exhibiting the structural patterns that are employed...literary unit, whether in poetry or in prose, and discerning the many and various devices by which the predications are formulated and ordered into a...

...Biblical Literature that he is above all concerned with understanding the nature of Hebrewliterary composition, in exhibiting the structural patterns...are formulated and ordered into a unified whole." There are clear signs of a trend among biblical critics toward greater interest in and study of literary...

..."rhetorical criticism" and described it as: understanding the nature of Hebrew literary composition, . . . exhibiting the structural patterns that are employed for the fashioning of a literary unit. . . . Such an enterprise I should describe as rhetoric and the methodology as rhetorical criticism.5...

...Oudtestamentische Studien 23 (1984): 56-84. followers. Muilenburg in describing rhetorical criticism stated, "What I am interested in, above all, is in understanding...are employed for the fashioning of a literary unit . . . and in discerning the many and varied devices by which the predications are formulated and ordered...

...Criticism (SBTS 2; ed. PR House; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1992) 49-69]]. Muilenburg's interest was in "understanding the nature of Hebrew literary composition,...predications are formulated and ordered into a unified whole (p. 8). He was concerned with the identification of formal devices such as parallelismus membrorum,...

...declared: What I am interested in, above all, is understanding the nature of Hebrew literary composition, exhibiting the structural patterns that are employed...fashioning of a literary unit, whether in poetry or prose, and discerning the many and various devices by which the predications are formulated and ordered...

...formulation."2 Muilenburg emphasized analysis of the structural patterns of literary units and discernment of "the many and various devices by which the predications...are formulated and ordered into a unified whole."' Although he frequently used the term "stylistics" to describe this enterprise, he adopted the term...

...formulation."2 Muilenburg emphasized analysis of the structural patterns of literary units and discernment of "the many and various devices by which the predications are formulated and ordered into a unified whole."5 Although he frequently used the term "stylistics" to describe this enterprise, he adopted...

...a method that also pays special attention to the larger organization of biblical discourse: What 1 am interested in, above all, is in understanding the...predications are formulated and ordered into a unified whole. (57) In order to accomplish these objectives, a basic two-step procedure is set forth, one that lays...