Isbn: 9780718893989 - from text to performance: narrative and performance criticisms in dialogue and debate (5 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essays on the Gospels through the lens of performance criticism, emphasising their origins as oral narrative and the insights arising from this understanding.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.…