Sound matters. The New Testament's first audiences were listeners, not readers. They heard its compositions read aloud and understood their messages as linear streams of sound. To understand the New...
The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists
by Marcel Jousse
Edited by Edgard Sienaert
Foreword by Werner H. Kelber
$50.00
£38.00
AU$68.00
ISBN: 9781532633928
Pub Date: July 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
This book is about the spoken word. It is about words spoken in the first century of our era and later put down in writing as confirmation of what had been said and done. Here, Marcel Jousse answers...
Receiving a letter from Paul was a major event in the early churches. Given the orally oriented culture of the time, a letter was designed to be read out loud in front of an audience. The document was...
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...
A Performance-Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative
by Thomas E. Boomershine
$57.00
£43.00
AU$78.00
ISBN: 9781625645456
Pub Date: June 2015
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The telling of Mark's story of Jesus as the Messiah of peace in the decades following the Roman-Judean war announced a third way forward for Diaspora Judeans other than warfare against or separation...
Narrative and Performance Criticisms in Dialogue and Debate
Edited by Kelly Iverson
$30.00
£23.00
AU$41.00
ISBN: 9781625649874
Pub Date: October 2014
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
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...
Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres
Edited by Annette Weissenrieder and Robert B. Coote
$52.00
£39.00
AU$71.00
ISBN: 9781498237420
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
How did the visual, the oral, and the written interrelate in antiquity? The essays in this collection address the competing and complementary roles of visual media, forms of memory, oral performance,...
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,...
To experience the gospel message as first-century people heard it is to move into an oral world, one with very little reliance on manuscripts. The essays in this book explore this oral world and the...
Studies on the Media Texture of the New Testament—Explorative Hermeneutics
by J. A. Loubser
Foreword by Werner H. Kelber
$35.00
£27.00
ISBN: 9781620325407
Pub Date: January 2013
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible is the fruit of Professor Loubser's confrontation with how Scripture is read, understood, and used in the Third World situation, which is closer than modern...
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