John Witherington's Scripture

Witherington presents a vast amount of knowledge and a more in depth perspective towards Scripture. In particular, with the New Testaments as he explains how Rhetoric Redux plays a key factor in how the NT authors wrote Scripture. Witherington begins to set up the context for us in the very beginning as he establishes a more in depth understanding of rhetoric redux as it transpires throughout the Ages.
According to Witherington “good evangelism and good preaching involved persuasion, not manipulation and strong-arm tactics.” To be quiet honest I’ve never looked nor thought about preaching as an “art of persuasion” let alone have a multitude of rules and forms involved in its praxis. There are three different known species of ancient rhetoric