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Rhetorical Review
Vol. 7, no. 1 (February 2009)


Gabor Borritt:
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006
415 pages (illustrations; appendices; index)
ISBN: 0-7432-8820-3 (hardback)
Price: $28
Reviewed by STEPHEN J. McKENNA

pp. 1-5


 

Elliot B. Gertel (editor):
Jewish Belief and Practice in Nineteenth Century America. Seminal Essays by Outstanding Pulpit Rabbis of the Era
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006
vi + 210 pages (index)
ISBN: 978-0-7864-2524-2 (paperback)
Price: $49.95

Naomi W. Cohen:
What the Rabbis Said. The Public Discourse of Nineteenth Century American Rabbis
New York & London: New York University Press, 2008
x + 261 pages (index)
ISBN: 978-0-8147-1688-5 (hardback)
Price: $45

Marc Saperstein:
Jewish Preaching in Times of War, 1800-2001
Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008
640 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 978-1-904113-54-6 (hardback)
Price: £39.95; $69.95
Reviewed by MIRELA SAIM
pp. 6-11

 

Philip H. Kern:
Rhetoric and Galatians: Assessing an Approach to Paul’s Epistles
(Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, no. 101)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
xiv + 321 pages (indices; bibliography)
ISBN: 978-0-521-04813-2 (paperback) [978-0-521-63117-4 (hardback from 1998)]
Price: £21.99; $39.99 (paperback) [£60; $110 (hardback); $64 (eBook)]
Reviewed by C. JAN SWEARINGEN
pp. 12-16

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