From Text to Performance
Subtitle: Narrative and Performance Criticisms in Dialogue and Debate
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781625649874
Description: 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. --