Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
Cover of the book Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by Richard A. Horsley, Wipf and Stock Publishers
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Richard A. Horsley ISBN: 9781630870652
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers Publication: November 5, 2013
Imprint: Cascade Books Language: English
Author: Richard A. Horsley
ISBN: 9781630870652
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Publication: November 5, 2013
Imprint: Cascade Books
Language: English

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 proteges 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 proteges 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.

More books from Wipf and Stock Publishers

Cover of the book "In the Beginning . . ." by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book The Glory of Kings by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Reading Augustine by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Divine Presence amid Violence by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Postcolonial Voices from Downunder by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Unexpected Jesus by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Dallas by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World, Second Edition by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Brimming with God by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Reading Acts by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book The Religious Life by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book If You Call Yourself a Jew by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Preaching the New Testament Again by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book The Church and the War by Richard A. Horsley
Cover of the book Mariology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium by Richard A. Horsley
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy