Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus
Subtitle: A Window into Early Christian Reading Practices
Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781506432502
Subjects: Christians; Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Description: "Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice in the first century."