Biblical Performance Criticism
The ancient societies of the Bible were overwhelmingly oral. People originally experienced the traditions now in the Bible as oral performances. Focusing on the ancient performance of biblical traditions enables us to shift academic work on the Bible from the mentality of a modern print culture to that of an oral/scribal culture. Conceived broadly, biblical performance criticism embraces many methods as means to reframe the biblical materials in the context of traditional oral cultures, construct scenarios of ancient performances, learn from contemporary performances of these materials, and reinterpret biblical writings accordingly. The result is a foundational paradigm shift that reconfigures traditional disciplines and employs fresh biblical methodologies such as theater studies, speech-act theory, and performance studies. The emerging research of many scholars in this field of study, the development of working groups in scholarly societies, and the appearance of conferences on orality and literacy make it timely to inaugurate this series. For further information on biblical performance criticism, go to www.biblicalperformancecriticism.org.
Series Editor: David Rhoads
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Biblical Humor and Performance
Audience Experiences That Make Meaning
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ISBN: 9781666711295
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
What's so humorous about the Bible? Quite a bit, especially if experienced with others! Nine biblical scholars explore their experiences of reading and hearing passages from the Bible and discovering...
The Forgotten Compass
Marcel Jousse and the Exploration of the Oral World
$38.00
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ISBN: 9781725278332
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
As form criticism arose, the French anthropologist Marcel Jousse developed a hermeneutical paradigm, global in scope and prescient in its vision but opposed to the philological paradigm of biblical...
First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences
The Gospels as Performance Literature
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ISBN: 9781666733822
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
These essays explore the reconception of the Gospels as first-century compositions of sound performed for audiences by storytellers rather than the anachronistic picture of a series of texts read by...
Sound Mapping the New Testament, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9781532681745
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
In the ancient world, writings were read aloud, heard, and remembered. But modern exegesis assumes a silent text. According to Margaret Lee & Brandon Scott, the disjuncture between ancient and modern...
Sound Matters
New Testament Studies in Sound Mapping
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ISBN: 9781532649967
Pub Date: November 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
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...
Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers
The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists
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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...
Translating Scripture for Sound and Performance
New Directions in Biblical Studies
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ISBN: 9781620322970
Pub Date: November 2012
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The various studies presented in this anthology underscore the foundational matter of translation in biblical studies as understood from the specific perspective of Biblical Performance Criticism. If...
Performance Criticism of the Pauline Letters
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ISBN: 9781498298315
Pub Date: October 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
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 Story of Naomi—The Book of Ruth
From Gender to Politics
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ISBN: 9781498206181
Pub Date: January 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
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...
The Messiah of Peace
A Performance-Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative
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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...
Biblical Humor and Performance
Audience Experiences That Make Meaning
$36.00
£29.00
AU$56.00
ISBN: 9781666711295
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Forgotten Compass
Marcel Jousse and the Exploration of the Oral World
$38.00
£34.00
AU$59.00
ISBN: 9781725278332
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences
The Gospels as Performance Literature
$36.00
£32.00
AU$57.00
ISBN: 9781666733822
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Sound Mapping the New Testament, Second Edition
$51.00
£45.00
AU$79.00
ISBN: 9781532681745
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Sound Matters
New Testament Studies in Sound Mapping
$34.00
£30.00
AU$47.00
ISBN: 9781532649967
Pub Date: November 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers
The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists
$52.00
£46.00
AU$74.00
ISBN: 9781532633928
Pub Date: July 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Translating Scripture for Sound and Performance
New Directions in Biblical Studies
$29.00
£26.00
AU$40.00
ISBN: 9781620322970
Pub Date: November 2012
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Performance Criticism of the Pauline Letters
$44.00
£39.00
AU$62.00
ISBN: 9781498298315
Pub Date: October 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Story of Naomi—The Book of Ruth
From Gender to Politics
$29.00
£26.00
AU$40.00
ISBN: 9781498206181
Pub Date: January 2016
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Messiah of Peace
A Performance-Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative
$59.00
£52.00
AU$85.00
ISBN: 9781625645456
Pub Date: June 2015
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books