Paul Borgman

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Borgman’s "Written to be Heard: Recovering the Messages of the Gospels" (with co-author Clark, March, 2019), includes a shortened version of his previously published "The Way According to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts" (Eerdmans, 2006). Prior narrative analyses of Genesis ("Genesis, the Story We Haven’t Heard," IVPress 2001) and the David story ("David, Saul, and God: Recovering an Ancient Masterpiece," Oxford, 2008) serve as backdrop for the gospels book, making up a major part of the biblical context which each of the gospels and Acts rely upon. All four studies are available through Amazon.

These four literary analyses uncover what ancient and mostly preliterate listeners would have heard told aloud. The author structured their narratives for the ear, a very differently thing from the fashioning of modern narratives. Big difference, which you who venture into any of these works will see.

One who saw is Yale Professor Emeritus Nicholas Wolterstorff, who concludes his Foreword to "Written to be Heard" with this response: “The experience of many readers will be, as was mine, that of scales falling from one’s eyes. So that’s the message of Matthew, of Mark, of Luke-Acts, of John!...Why didn’t someone write 'Written to be Heard long ago?'”