Orality And The Scriptures

Author : Ernst R. Wendland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
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Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1556712987

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Orality and the Scriptures by Ernst R. Wendland Pdf

What does "orality" (oral forms of discourse) have to do with the "Scriptures," a corpus of sacred written documents? The aim of these essays is to reveal how the field of "orality studies" concerns the manifold process of composing, translating, and transmitting the diverse texts of Scriptures. This oft-neglected oral/aural dimension of communication provides us with a sharper perception of and greater appreciation for the various literary features of the biblical writings and their associated semantic and spiritual implications. Part One, ORIENTATION, overviews the principal aspects of orality studies: key terms, methodologies, as well as controversies about the transmission of Scripture. Part Two, DOCUMENTATION, presents three illustrative "case studies" involving composition, featuring full-text analyses that expound an oral-oriented, literary-rhetorical "hearing" of Isaiah 66, John 17, and Philippians. Part Three, APPLICATION, invites readers to engage more actively with translating the biblical text by critically considering four additional passages from an oral-aural "soundpoint"-Song of Songs 8, Revelation 5, Philemon, and 1 Corinthians 13. The final chapter encourages the application of an orality-based methodology, to achieve an exegetically accurate, yet artistically dynamic transmission of the Bible in today's media-rich world. The book thus seeks to motivate its readers-whether teachers, students, translators, or mass-media communicators-to always lend a sensitive ear to the text whenever they engage the Scriptures. "Throughout this book, Wendland progressively, and with increasing intensity, draws our attention to an enormous amount of detailed examples of the manifold poetic and rhetorical phenomena encoded in biblical orature. The cumulative effect of these detailed examples builds a powerful case for the necessity of recognizing and exploiting the expressive nature and potential of biblical oral arts. Clearly, oral verbal arts communicate much more than "mere words." As Wendland puts it, they also 'animate hearts'" (from the Foreword). Ernst R. Wendland (Ph.D., African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin) is an instructor at Lusaka Lutheran Seminary and a dissertation examiner in Zambian languages at the University of Zambia. A former UBS Translation Consultant, he still serves as Professor Extraordinary in the Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Africa, Department of Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Author : James A. Maxey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630871239

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From Orality to Orality by James A. Maxey Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, Bible translation is presented as an expression of contextualization that explores the neglected riches of the verbal arts in the New Testament. Going beyond a historical study of media in antiquity, this book explores a renewed interest in oral performance that informs methods and goals of Bible translation today. Such exploration is concretized in the New Testament translation work in central Africa among the Vute people of Cameroon. This study of contextualization appreciates the agency of local communities--particularly in Africa--who seek to express their Christian faith in response to anthropological pauperization. An extended analysis of African theologians demonstrates the ultimate goals of contextualization: liberation and identity. Oral performance exploits all the senses in experiencing communication while performer, text, and audience negotiate meaning. Performance not only expresses but also shapes identity as communities express their faith in varied contexts. This book contends that the New Testament compositions were initially performed and not restricted to individualized, silent reading. This understanding encourages a reexamination of how Bible translation can be done. Performance is not a product but a process that infuses biblical studies with new insights, methods, and expressions.

Author : James A. Maxey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606083246

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From Orality to Orality by James A. Maxey Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, Bible translation is presented as an expression of contextualization that explores the neglected riches of the verbal arts in the New Testament. Going beyond a historical study of media in antiquity, this book explores a renewed interest in oral performance that informs methods and goals of Bible translation today. Such exploration is concretized in the New Testament translation work in central Africa among the Vute people of Cameroon. This study of contextualization appreciates the agency of local communities--particularly in Africa--who seek to express their Christian faith in response to anthropological pauperization. An extended analysis of African theologians demonstrates the ultimate goals of contextualization: liberation and identity. Oral performance exploits all the senses in experiencing communication while performer, text, and audience negotiate meaning. Performance not only expresses but also shapes identity as communities express their faith in varied contexts. This book contends that the New Testament compositions were initially performed and not restricted to individualized, silent reading. This understanding encourages a reexamination of how Bible translation can be done. Performance is not a product but a process that infuses biblical studies with new insights, methods, and expressions.

Author : Paul Bandia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315311159

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Orality and Translation by Paul Bandia Pdf

In the current context of globalization, relocation of cultures, and rampant technologizing of communication, orality has gained renewed interest across disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. Orality has shed its once negative image as primitive, non-literate, and exotic, and has grown into a major area of scientific interest and the focus of interdisciplinary research, including translation studies. As an important feature of human speech and communication, orality has featured prominently in studies related to pre-modernist traditions, modernist representations of human history, and postmodernist expressions of artistry such as in music, film, and other audiovisual media. Its wide appeal can be seen in the variety of this volume, in which contributors draw from a range of disciplines with orality as the point of intersection with translation studies. This book is unique in its exploration of orality and translation from an interdisciplinary perspective, and sets the groundwork for collaborative research among scholars across disciplines with an interest in the aesthetics and materiality of orality. This book was originally published as a special issue of Translation Studies.

Author : J. A. Loubser
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781920109189

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Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible by J. A. Loubser Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of scholarship dealing with the properties and function of the materialities of the oral and scribal arts, as well as oral-scribal interfaces, the author unfolds before our eyes and makes manifest to our ears a world of communications in which there are no original texts, let alone original speech, where manuscripts are written to be remembered and read out aloud, where scribal products exhibit both a metonymic and a polyvalent quality.

Author : Jonathan A. Draper
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Colonies
ISBN : 9781589831315

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Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity by Jonathan A. Draper Pdf

Religious scholars take up various questions relating to the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of colonized people in antiquity, and explore the role of orality in relation to this hegemony. Among the topics are theoretical and methodological foundations, Mithra's cult as an example of religious colonialism in Roman times, th

Author : William Albert Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521448204

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Beyond the Written Word by William Albert Graham Pdf

The concept of 'scripture' as written religious text is re-examined, considering orally distributed sacred writings.

Author : Avery Willis,Steve Evans
Publisher : Elim Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1599190184

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Making Disciples of Oral Learners by Avery Willis,Steve Evans Pdf

Author : Richard A. Horsley,Jonathan A. Draper,John Miles Foley,Werner H. Kelber
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451411669

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Performing the Gospel by Richard A. Horsley,Jonathan A. Draper,John Miles Foley,Werner H. Kelber Pdf

Previous thinking regarding "oral tradition" imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would constitute what we know as the end result, the written Gospels.

Author : Tom Steffen,William Bjoraker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532684821

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The Return of Oral Hermeneutics by Tom Steffen,William Bjoraker Pdf

Have Western exegetes turned an Eastern book into a Western one? Has our fondness for a fixed printed text capable of being analyzed with precision and exactitude blinded us to other hermeneutic possibilities? Does God require all people to be able to analyze grammar to interpret Scripture? Does God assume all people can interpret Scripture through oral means? The authors recognize the effects of centuries of literacy socialization that produced a blind spot in the Western Christian world--the neglect by most in the academies, agencies, and assemblies of the foundational and forceful role orality had on the biblical text and teaching. From the inspired spoken word of the prophets, including Jesus (pre-text), to the elite literate scribes who painstakingly hand-printed the sacred text, to post-text interpretation and teaching, the footprint of orality throughout the entire process is acutely visible to those having the oral-aural influenced eyes of the Mediterranean ancients. Could oral hermeneutics be the "mother of relational theology"?

Author : Fiachra Long,Siobhán Dowling Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134792566

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Reading the Sacred Scriptures by Fiachra Long,Siobhán Dowling Long Pdf

Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how their authority has been constructed and reinforced over time. Highlighting the measures taken to safeguard the stability of oral accounts, this book demonstrates the care of religious communities to maintain with reverence their assembled parchments and scrolls. Written by leading experts in their fields, this collection chronicles the development of the scriptures from oral tradition to written documents and their reception. It features notable essays on the scriptures of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Shinto, and Baha'i. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the belief systems of the featured religions. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate religious studies students, teachers and lecturers can explore religious traditions from their historical beginnings.

Author : Jackie Towns
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644683620

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Stories of Glory by Jackie Towns Pdf

Stories of Glory: An Orality Journey Through the Bible is the instructor's manual for the Metanarrative Bible course of God's grand redemptive story. It is comprised of fifty compelling stories from Genesis through Revelation with supporting biblical passages to expound on the storyline. The book is complete with initial questions for each story and then detailed, reflective, and life application questions to enrich class discussions after the story presentation. The crafting of the book was designed to provide practical training for the pastors, church leaders, or church planters in apologetics, homiletics, theology, and leadership with orality methods of teaching and preaching the Word of God.It is my prayer that after a person complete the Stories of Glory: An Orality Journey Through the Bible course they will acquire an increased knowledge and understanding of the biblical metanarrative, God's covenantal love, His faithful commitment to the redemption of His people, and His longing for an authentic relationship with each one of us. I also hope that they will gain greater confidence to embrace their significance in God's grand story with the ability to think through life situations from a biblical worldview and apply the beauty of God's unconditional love to their lives. To God be the glory! Amen. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Cor 13:14 NIV)

Author : Albert Ngengi Mundele
Publisher : Biblical Centre for Africa and Madagascar (Bicam)
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9914707882

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Bible and Orality in Africa by Albert Ngengi Mundele Pdf

BIBLE AND ORALITY IN AFRICAThe papers offered in the present volume explore the connections between the Bible and orality in the African contexts to share more theological knowledge about and through oral communications. Each paper tackles this topic from the perspective of a given theological or related discipline, using methods such as narratology, literary analysis, media criticism, socio-anthropological, theological, liturgical, ethical approaches and others. Owing to the interconnectedness between the continents, this initiative welcomed papers in two languages (English and French), addressing the same issue and using similar or different methods relevant to their own contexts. Common to most African cultures is the use of orality in different forms of communication. Demonstrated in various ways with examples drawn from African cultures and Biblical texts, the various authors of widely researched articles that are compiled in this book reveal the importance of orality both in Africa and in the world of the Bible. The book will be of immense help to researchers of all walks of life, particularly persons in interdisciplinary studies, sociologists and Biblical scholars (Mary Jerome Obiorah, IHM, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria). This very rich collection of articles on the Bible and Orality in Africa by scholars from various parts of the world will enable Bible readers to engage with it through fresh insights. Greater attention to oral tradition makes us appreciate how the Bible has emerged from the hearts of people pondering and sharing together their experiences of life and of God. This process is very familiar to African communal life and these studies will stimulate the practice of turning the written text again into a sharing of present day experiences of life and God (Paul B Decock, OMI, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa).

Author : Shem Miller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004408203

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Dead Sea Media by Shem Miller Pdf

In Dead Sea Media, Shem Miller offers an innovative media criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls that examines the roles of orality and memory in the social setting and scribal practices of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310877134

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Jesus Under Fire by Zondervan, Pdf

Who is Jesus? What did he do? What did he say? -Are the traditional answer to these questions still to be trusted? - Did the early church and tradition "Christianize" Jesus? - Was Christianity built on clever conceptions of the church, or on the character and actions of an actual person? These and similar questions have come under scrutiny by a forum of biblical scholars called the Jesus Seminar. Their conclusions have been widely publicized in magazines such as Time and Newsweek. Jesus Under Fire challenges the methodology and findings of the Jesus Seminar, which generally clash with the biblical records. It examines the authenticity of the words, actions, miracles, and resurrection of Jesus, and presents compelling evidence for the traditional biblical teachings. Combining accessibility with scholarly depth, Jesus Under Fire helps readers judge for themselves whether the Jesus of the Bible is the Jesus of history, and whether the gospels' claim is valid that he is the only way to God.