ENGL 1A: Critical Thinking & Writing (Crosby)

An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

The analysis of biblical rhetoric has been developed only in the last 250 years. The first half of this book outlines the history of the method known as rhetorical analysis in biblical studies, illustrated by numerous texts. The work of Lowth (who focused on 'parallelism'), Bengel (who drew attention to 'chiasmus'), Jebb and Boys (the method's real founders at the turn of the ninteenth century) and Lund (the chief exponent in the mid-twentieth century) are all discussed, as is the current full blooming of rhetorical analysis. The second half of the book is a systematic account of the method, testing it on Psalms 113 and 146, on the first two chapters of Amos, and many other texts, especially from Luke. Translated by Luc Racaut.

Take an epic journey through America's racist past - and present - with award-winning author, pastor, and civil rights leader Michael W. Waters, From the riverbank where Emmett Till's body was recovered and the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, to sites of recent racial violence like Charleston's Emanuel AME Church massacre and El Paso's Walmart shootings, and his own history-making moments bringing down the Confederate monuments in Dallas, Waters ruminates on sacred spaces and places that have shaped America's racial tension - and our hope that a better day will come.