Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing - Couverture souple

Livre 7 sur 18: Biblical Performance Criticism

Horsley, Richard A.

 
9781625641588: Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing
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ISBN 10 : 1625641583 ISBN 13 : 9781625641588
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2013

Synopsis

Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research has shown, even the literate scribes learned texts by repeated recitation, while the nonliterate ordinary people had little if any direct contact with written scrolls. The texts that had taken distinctive form, moreover, were embedded in a broader and deeper cultural repertoire cultivated orally in village communities as well as in scribal circles. Only recently have some scholars struggled to appreciate texts that later became "biblical" in their own historical context of oral communication. Exploration of texts in oral performance-whether as scribal teachers' instruction to their protégés or as prophetic speeches of Jesus of Nazareth or as the performance of a whole Gospel story in a community of Jesus-loyalists-requires interpreters to relinquish their print-cultural assumptions. Widening exploration of texts in oral performance in other fields offers exciting new possibilities for allowing those texts to come alive again in their community contexts as they resonated with the cultural tradition in which they were embedded.

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À propos de l?auteur

Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His numerous publications include these recent works from Cascade Books: Empowering the People: Jesus, Healing, and Exorcism (2022), You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them: The Political Economic Projects of Jesus and Paul (2021), Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, 2nd ed. (2021), Jesus and Magic (2014), and Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing (2013).

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1625641583
ISBN 13 
9781625641588
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
366
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1498216803 ISBN 13 :  9781498216807
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013
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