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Prophets as Performers

Author : Jeanette Mathews
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-03-04
ISBN 13 : 1532685521
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (685 downloads)

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Download Prophets as Performers PDF Format Full Free by Jeanette Mathews and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical prophets and Biblical Performance Criticism are brought together in three case studies (Elijah, Ezekiel, Jonah) presented as performances. This book proposes a new method of reading the biblical prophets with a threefold focus on creativity, commentary, and connections. With this method the many and varied performances of the prophets can be better appreciated. Critical analysis of the quintessentially performative nature of the prophets as embodied spokespersons for YHWH aids us in understanding and clarifying YHWH’s message to audiences, situations, and communities of the past as well as engaging contemporary audiences.

Prophets as Performers

Author : Jeanette Mathews
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-03-04
ISBN 13 : 1532685548
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (685 downloads)

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Download Prophets as Performers PDF Format Full Free by Jeanette Mathews and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical prophets and Biblical Performance Criticism are brought together in three case studies (Elijah, Ezekiel, Jonah) presented as performances. This book proposes a new method of reading the biblical prophets with a threefold focus on creativity, commentary, and connections. With this method the many and varied performances of the prophets can be better appreciated. Critical analysis of the quintessentially performative nature of the prophets as embodied spokespersons for YHWH aids us in understanding and clarifying YHWH's message to audiences, situations, and communities of the past as well as engaging contemporary audiences.

Prophets, Performance, and Power

Author : William Doan
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-10-26
ISBN 13 : 9780567026804
Pages : 210 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (567 downloads)

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Download Prophets, Performance, and Power PDF Format Full Free by William Doan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes performance modes of thought imbedded in the prophetic literature through performance analysis.

Performing Habakkuk

Author : Jeanette Mathews
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2012-06-01
ISBN 13 : 1725246775
Pages : 262 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (246 downloads)

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Download Performing Habakkuk PDF Format Full Free by Jeanette Mathews and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripture, like any performance, aims for transformation of its audience. In this new study Jeanette Mathews demonstrates how literature from the diverse field of performance studies can be applied to the prophetic book of Habakkuk in order to draw out themes and features that are common to both. Mathews offers a fresh new translation of Habakkuk that emphasizes and celebrates its intrinsic dramatic features. This translation provides the "script" for the performance of Habakkuk. The attitudes and actions of the "actors" in the performance become models for their "audience," such that the audience members are drawn into the performance and do not remain impartial spectators. The context of crisis that forms the book's "setting" is of crucial importance, ensuring that genres such as complaint and lament are taken seriously as expressions of faith in the midst of traumatic experience. The open-ended script makes explicit the drama of faithfulness in the midst of cultural trauma and public crises--a faithfulness that is ready to be reenacted in our own settings.

Performer as Priest and Prophet

Author : Judith Rock
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1988
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 164 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Download Performer as Priest and Prophet PDF Format Full Free by Judith Rock and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the elements of music and dance, their role as catalysts for religious thought, and the place of the artist in the religious community

Persepolis and Jerusalem

Author : Jason M. Silverman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-10-10
ISBN 13 : 0567244466
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (244 downloads)

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Download Persepolis and Jerusalem PDF Format Full Free by Jason M. Silverman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. After describing the history of scholarship on the question of Iranian influence and on Jewish apocalyptic, Jason M. Silverman reformulates the methodology for understanding apocalyptic and influence. Two chapters set the discussion firmly in the Achaemenid Empire, describing the sources for Iranian religion, the issues involved in attempting a historical reconstruction, the methodology by which one can date the various texts and ideas, and the potential loci for Iranian-Judaean interaction. The historical context is expanded through media-contextualization, particularly Oral Theory, and critiques the standard text-centric method of current Biblical Scholarship. With this background, pericopes from Ezekiel, Daniel, and 1 Enoch are analyzed for Iranian influence. The study then brings together the contexts and analyses to argue for an 'Apocalyptic Hermeneutic' which relates the phenomena of apocalypticism, apocalypse, and millenarianism-seeing the hermeneutic as a dialectical thread holding them all together as well as apart- and posits this as the best place to understand Iranian influences.

Whoever Hears You Hears Me

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 1999-11-01
ISBN 13 : 9781563382727
Pages : 340 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (563 downloads)

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Download Whoever Hears You Hears Me PDF Format Full Free by Richard A. Horsley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a challenge to New Testament scholars to engage in a fresh analysis of Q. The authors argue that recent American study of Q has been dominated by those trained in form-criticism and oriented to Hellenistic rather than Judean culture, resulting in the extreme atomization of the Q sayings and reconstructions of Jesus and his first followers as Cynics, and in the de-politicization and de-judaization of the Q materials and Jesus. Also determinative of the current situation has been the assumption in New Testament studies of textuality, of an ethos of written communication and of textual models for analysis. However, as is recently becoming clear from studies of oral and written communication, the communication situation of Jesus and his first followers was almost certainly oral. Horsley and Draper therefore contend that it is time the interpretation of Q took seriously the oral communication environment in which this material developed and continued before Matthew and Luke incorporated it into their Gospels. This book, then, applies approaches to oral-derived literature from oral theorists, socio-linguistics, ethnopoetics, and the ethnography of speaking to the Q materials. The result is a developing theory of oral performance that generates meaning as symbols articulated in the appropriate performance situation resonate with the cultural tradition in which the hearers are grounded. Richard A. Horsley is Professor of Classics and Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Jonathan A. Draper teaches at the University of Natal, South Africa.

Judging Q and saving Jesus - Q’s contribution to the wisdom-apocalypticism debate in historical Jesus studies.

Author : Llewellyn Howes
Publisher : AOSIS
Release Date : 2015-12-31
ISBN 13 : 0620687371
Pages : 364 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (687 downloads)

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Download Judging Q and saving Jesus - Q’s contribution to the wisdom-apocalypticism debate in historical Jesus studies. PDF Format Full Free by Llewellyn Howes and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judging Q and saving Jesus is characterised by careful textual analysis, showing a piercing critical eye in its impressive engagement with the secondary literature and sharp, insightful critique. This book takes the stance that the hypothetical document Q can be reconstructed with sufficient precision and that this enables biblical scholars to study with confidence its genre and its thematic and ideological profile. The genre issue is central to the book’s overall structure, and the alternative proposals are discussed at length and with sophistication. The author’s inference is that Q’s macrogenre is sapiential with occasional insertions of apocalyptic microstructures and motifs. This finding embodies progress in Historical Jesus studies. An opposing trend has been to label Jesus an apocalypticist, so that the great ‘either-or’ of contemporary Jesus scholarship has been ‘either eschatological or not’, an alternative that dates back to Albert Schweitzer. The author finds that generally, and even when used apocalyptically, the term Son of Man tends to support arguments best understood as sapiential in outlook. This is consistent with the sapiential genre of the document as a whole. This finding is supported by the close and careful exegesis of Q 6:37?38 (on not judging). He reconstructs the original wording of this saying ‘on not judging’ and explores the idea of ‘weighing’ in judgment (psychostasia), determining in the end that the saying is entirely sapiential.

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets

Author : G MCCONVILLE
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Release Date : 2020-05-21
ISBN 13 : 178974038X
Pages : 1518 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (74 downloads)

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Download Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets PDF Format Full Free by G MCCONVILLE and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of the prophets make up over a quarter of the Old Testament. But perhaps no other portion of the Old Testament is more misunderstood by readers today. For some, prophecy conjures up knotted enigmas, opaque oracles and terrifying visions of the future. For others it raises expectations of a plotted-out future to be reconstructed from disparate texts. And yet the prophets have imprinted the language of faith and imagination with some of its most sublime visions of the future - nations streaming to Zion, a lion lying with a lamb, and endlessly fruiting trees on the banks of a flowing river. We might view the prophets as stage directors for Israel's unfolding drama of redemption. Drawing inspiration from past acts in that drama and invoking fresh words from its divine author, these prophets speak a language of sinewed poetry, their words and images arresting the ear and detonating in the mind. For when Yahweh roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem, the pastures of the shepherds dry up, the crest of Carmel withers, and the prophetic word buffets those selling the needy for a pair of sandals. The Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets is the only reference book of its kind. Not only does it focus exclusively on the prophetic books; it also plumbs their imagery of mountains and wilderness, flora and fauna, temple and Zion. It maps and guides us through topics such as covenant and law, exile and deliverance, forgiveness and repentance, and the Day of the Lord. Here the nature of prophecy is searched out in its social, historical, literary and psychological dimensions as well as its synchronic spread of textual links and associations. And the formation of the prophetic books into their canonical collection, including the Book of the Twelve, is explored and weighed for its significance. Then too, contemporary approaches such as canonical criticism, conversation analysis, editorial/redaction criticism, feminist interpretation, literary approaches and rhetorical criticism are summed up and assayed. Even the afterlife of these great texts is explored in articles on the history of interpretation as well as on their impact in the New Testament.

Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement

Author : Sarah E. Rollens
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2014-08-27
ISBN 13 : 9783161531200
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (161 downloads)

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Download Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement PDF Format Full Free by Sarah E. Rollens and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which milieu did the earliest rural Jesus movement emerge from? Sarah E. Rollens provides a sociological study of the earliest Christians in rural Palestine based on evidence in the Sayings Gospels Q. She compares this Jesus movement to other movements of social reform in similar socio-cultural contexts.

Scribes as Sages and Prophets

Author : Jutta Krispenz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-11-09
ISBN 13 : 3110482436
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (482 downloads)

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Download Scribes as Sages and Prophets PDF Format Full Free by Jutta Krispenz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of the Hebrew Bible used to look at „Prophecy" and „Wisdom" as clearly distinct realms represented by antagonistic and mutually exclusive roles of their central characters: the loyal sage, the pillar of administration, on the one side and the rebellious prophet, criticizing the establishment, on the other. While the influence of wisdom thought on prophetic texts has been a topic in the scholarly debate, the complementary question of the influence of prophetic thought on wisdom texts has rarely been asked. The contributions in this volume look at both questions: They start from the assumption that texts from the Hebrew Bible and the cultures surrounding Ancient Israel all originated from a social stratum of educated scribes, who authored and transmitted these texts. It then seems plausible that wisdom texts might show similar traces of prophetic influence to those of wisdom thoughts found in prophetic texts. The essays give a multifaceted picture concerning the mutual perception of prophets and sages and thus provide a deeper understanding of both wisdom literature and prophecy.

Ancient Prophecy

Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
ISBN 13 : 0198808550
Pages : 469 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (88 downloads)

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Download Ancient Prophecy PDF Format Full Free by Martti Nissinen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.

Propheten und Prophezeiungen

Author : Matthias Riedl
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 13 : 9783826022531
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (826 downloads)

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The Story of Naomi--The Book of Ruth

Author : Terry Giles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-01-29
ISBN 13 : 1498206182
Pages : 218 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (26 downloads)

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Download The Story of Naomi--The Book of Ruth PDF Format Full Free by Terry Giles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Ruth is probably best known as a romantic love story that, through the expression of loving devotion, overcomes tragedy and ends with the founding of the most famous family in all of biblical Israel. But the book wasn't always this way. In fact, it wasn't a book at all but rather a story told with a very different purpose in mind. Before Ruth, there was the Story of Naomi, a subversive story designed to challenge a male-dominated status quo. Through comedy, sarcastic irony, and unparalleled rhetorical skill the Naomi storyteller holds up for inspection social gender roles and the power of sexuality in a manner that resonates yet today. The Story of Naomi--The Book of Ruth goes behind the literary rendition of the story and recaptures the original oral tale, with script and performance directions that brings to life the humor, tragedy, and transparent honesty shared between the Naomi storyteller and her audience.

Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2013-11-05
ISBN 13 : 1625641583
Pages : 366 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (641 downloads)

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Download Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing PDF Format Full Free by Richard A. Horsley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research has shown, even the literate scribes learned texts by repeated recitation, while the nonliterate ordinary people had little if any direct contact with written scrolls. The texts that had taken distinctive form, moreover, were embedded in a broader and deeper cultural repertoire cultivated orally in village communities as well as in scribal circles. Only recently have some scholars struggled to appreciate texts that later became ""biblical"" in their own historical context of oral communication. Exploration of texts in oral performance--whether as scribal teachers' instruction to their protŽgŽs or as prophetic speeches of Jesus of Nazareth or as the performance of a whole Gospel story in a community of Jesus-loyalists--requires interpreters to relinquish their print-cultural assumptions. Widening exploration of texts in oral performance in other fields offers exciting new possibilities for allowing those texts to come alive again in their community contexts as they resonated with the cultural tradition in which they were embedded."

Jesus Tradition in the Apostolic Fathers

Author : Stephen E. Young
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2011
ISBN 13 : 9783161510106
Pages : 404 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (161 downloads)

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Download Jesus Tradition in the Apostolic Fathers PDF Format Full Free by Stephen E. Young and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation reevaluates the tradition of Jesus' sayings in the Apostolic Fathers in light of the growing recognition of the impact of orality upon early Christianity and its writings. At the beginning of the last century it was common to hold that the Apostolic Fathers made wide use of the canonical Gospels. While a number of studies have since called this view into question, many of them simply replace the theory of dependence upon canonical Gospels with one of dependence upon other written sources. No full-scale study of Jesus tradition in the Apostolic Fathers has been published which takes into account the last four decades of new research into oral tradition in the wake of the pioneering work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord. Based on this new research, the present dissertation advances the thesis that an oral-traditional source best explains the form and content of the explicit appeals to Jesus tradition in the Apostolic Fathers that predate 2 Clement. In the course of the discussion, attention is drawn to the ways in which the Jesus tradition in the Apostolic Fathers informs our understanding of the use of oral tradition in Christian antiquity.

The Disciples' Jesus

Author : Terrence W. Tilley
Publisher : Orbis Books
Release Date : 2015-03-04
ISBN 13 : 1608333531
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (333 downloads)

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