Rhetorical criticism of biblical texts is a growth industry. Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts, edited by Anders Eriksson, Thomas H. Olbricht, and Walter Ubelacker (Trinity Press International, $47), contains the papers from the sixth conference on the rhetorical analysis of Scripture held in Lund, Sweden, in 2000. The conference focused on rhetorical argumentation (as opposed to genre analysis, rhetorical structure of documents, etc.). The 23 articles discuss argumentation ...