From Text to Performance: Narrative and Performance Criticisms in Dialogue and Debate - Softcover

 
9780718893989: From Text to Performance: Narrative and Performance Criticisms in Dialogue and Debate
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0718893980 ISBN 13: 9780718893989
Publisher: James Clarke and Co Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

For the last two centuries biblical interpretation has been guided by perspectives that have largely ignored the oral context in which the gospels took shape. Only recently have scholars begun to explore how ancient media inform the interpretive process and an understanding of the Bible. This collection of essays, by authors who recognize that the Jesus tradition was a story heard and performed, seeks to reevaluate the constituent elements of narrative, including characters, structure, narrator, time, and intertextuality. In dialogue with traditional literary approaches, these essays demonstrate that an appreciation of performance yields fresh insights distinguishable in many respects from results of literary or narrative readings of the gospels.

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About the Author

Kelly R. Iverson is Associate Professor of New Testament at Baylor University. He is the author of 'Gentiles in the Gospel of Mark' (2007), and coeditor of 'Mark as Story' (2011) and 'Unity and Diversity in the Gospels and Paul' (2012).

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Publisher
James Clarke and Co Ltd
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0718893980
ISBN 13 
9780718893989
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240
Editor
Iverson Kelly R.