Public reading in early Christianity
Subtitle: lectors, manuscripts, and sound in the oral delivery of John 1-4
By: by Dan Nässelqvist
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- volume 163; Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 163.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9789004306295; 9789004306639
Subjects: Oral reading; Criticism, interpretation; Reading; Bible; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-367) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pragmatics of reading; title: Lectors in early Christian communities; title: A method of sound analysis; title: John 1: introducing Jesus; title: John 2: Jesus in action; title: John 3: Jesus in discourse; title: John 4: Jesus in Samaria; title: Conclusions and implications.