This dissertation investigates necessity in Luke’s bios of Jesus using rhetorical and audience-oriented criticism. New Testament scholarship has reached a consensus that the gospels are examples of ancient Greco-Roman ...

In the nineteenth century Henry Highland Garnet employed important rhetorical strategies to the abolition, colonization, and civil rights movements. His religious and patriotic appeals complemented radical and sometimes ...

Human trafficking and immigration have become prominent policy issues during Barack Obama’s presidency. In this thesis, I argue that the metaphors used in the Obama administration’s human trafficking rhetoric and those ...