Performing Early Christian Literature

Author : Kelly Iverson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009033855

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Scholars of early Christian literature acknowledge that oral traditions lie behind the New Testament gospels. While the concept of orality is widely accepted, it has not resulted in a corresponding effort to understand the reception of the gospels within their oral milieu. In this book, Kelly Iverson reconsiders the experiential context in which early Christian literature was received and interpreted. He argues that reading and performance are distinguishable media events, and, significantly, that they produce distinctive interpretive experiences for readers and audiences alike. Iverson marshals an array of methodological perspectives demonstrating how performance generates a unique experiential context that shapes and informs the interpretive process. Iverson's study explores the dynamic oral environment in which ancient audiences experienced the gospel stories. He shows why an understanding of oral performance has important implications for the study of the NT, as well as for several issues that are largely unquestioned by biblical scholars.

Author : Kelly R. Iverson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1009014021

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Performing Early Christian Literature by Kelly R. Iverson Pdf

Scholars of early Christian literature acknowledge that oral traditions lie behind the New Testament gospels. While the concept of orality is widely accepted, it has not resulted in a corresponding effort to understand the reception of the gospels within their oral milieu. In this book, Kelly Iverson reconsiders the experiential context in which early Christian literature was received and interpreted. He argues that reading and performance are distinguishable media events, and, significantly, that they produce distinctive interpretive experiences for readers and audiences alike. Iverson marshals an array of methodological perspectives demonstrating how performance generates a unique experiential context that shapes and informs the interpretive process. Iverson's study explores the dynamic oral environment in which ancient audiences experienced the gospel stories. He shows why an understanding of oral performance has important implications for the study of the NT, as well as for several issues that are largely unquestioned by biblical scholars.

Author : Helen Rhee
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415354889

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Early Christian Literature by Helen Rhee Pdf

This work concerns the early Christians' self-definitions and self-representations in the context of pagan-Christian conflict, reflected in the literatures from the mid-second to the early third centuries (ca. 150 - 225 CE).

Author : Kelly Iverson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316516225

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Performing Early Christian Literature by Kelly Iverson Pdf

Performance creates a unique space for audience experience and influences how traditions, like the Gospels, are received and interpreted.

Author : Edgar Johnson Goodspeed,Robert McQueen Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Religion
ISBN : MINN:31951001494035K

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A History of Early Christian Literature by Edgar Johnson Goodspeed,Robert McQueen Grant Pdf

Author : Gustav Krüger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : WISC:89097192686

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History of Early Christian Literature in the First Three Centuries by Gustav Krüger Pdf

Author : Craig A. Evans,H. Daniel Zacharias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567138217

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Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality by Craig A. Evans,H. Daniel Zacharias Pdf

Scholarly interest in intertextuality remains as keen as ever. Armed with new questions, interpreters seek to understand better the function of older scripture in later scripture. The essays assembled in the present collection address these questions. These essays treat pre-Christian texts, as well as Christian texts, that make use of older sacred tradition. They analyze the respective uses of scripture in diverse Jewish and Christian traditions. Some of these studies are concerned with discreet bodies of writings, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, while others are concerned with versions of scriptures, such as the Hebrew or Old Greek, and text critical issues. Other studies are concerned with how scripture is interpreted as part of apocalyptic and eschatology. Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality includes essays that explore the use of Old Testament scripture in the Gospels and Acts. Other studies examine the apostle Paul's interpretation of scripture in his letters, while other studies look at non-Pauline writings and their utilization of scripture. Some of the studies in this collection show how older scripture clarifies important points of teaching or resolves social conflict. Law, conversion, anthropology, paradise, and Messianism are among the themes treated in these studies, themes rooted in important ways in older sacred tradition. The collection concludes with studies on two important Christian interpreters, Syriac-speaking Aphrahat in the east and Latin-speaking Augustine in the west. [Part of the LNTS sub series Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity (SSEJC), volume 14]

Author : Madison N. Pierce,Andrew J. Byers,Simon Gathercole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781316514467

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Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature by Madison N. Pierce,Andrew J. Byers,Simon Gathercole Pdf

Gospel writing always follows Gospel reading, a complex literary act of reception that interprets the theological significance of Jesus. This volume seek to demonstrate the intricate dynamics of this controversial figure's theological and textual reception through foundational essays on specific texts and themes.

Author : Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300069189

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Books and Readers in the Early Church by Harry Y. Gamble Pdf

This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.

Author : Gustav Kr Ger,Gustav Krüger
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290900531

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History of Early Christian Literature in the First Three Centuries by Gustav Kr Ger,Gustav Krüger Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Justo L. González
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611649543

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A History of Early Christian Literature by Justo L. González Pdf

Historical events have long been the standard lens through which scholars have sought to understand the theology of Christianity in late antiquity. The lives of significant theological figures, the rejection of individuals and movements as heretical, and the Trinitarian and christological controversiesthe defining theological events of the early churchhave long provided the framework with which to understand the development of early Christian belief. In this groundbreaking work, esteemed historian of Christianity Justo González chooses to focus on the literature of early Christianity. Beginning with the epistolary writings of the earliest Christian writers of the second century CE, he moves through apologies, martyrologies, antiheretical polemics, biblical commentaries, sermons, all the way up through Augustines invention of spiritual autobiography and beyond. Throughout he demonstrates how literary genre played a decisive role in the construction of theological meaning. Covering the earliest noncanonical Christian writings through the fifth century and later, this book will serve as an indispensable guide to students studying the theology of the early church.

Author : William John Ferrar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : UOM:39015062363083

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The Early Christian Books by William John Ferrar Pdf

Author : Edgar Johnson Goodspeed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : OCLC:1056584196

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History of Early Christian Literature by Edgar Johnson Goodspeed Pdf

Author : Paul M. Blowers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192595928

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Visions and Faces of the Tragic by Paul M. Blowers Pdf

Despite the pervasive early Christian repudiation of pagan theatrical art, especially prior to Constantine, this monograph demonstrates the increasing attention of late-ancient Christian authors to the genre of tragedy as a basis to explore the complexities of human finitude, suffering, and mortality in relation to the wisdom, justice, and providence of God. The book argues that various Christian writers, particularly in the post-Constantinian era, were keenly devoted to the mimesis, or imaginative re-presentation, of the tragic dimension of creaturely existence more than with simply mimicking the poetics of the classical Greek and Roman tragedians. It analyses a whole array of hermeneutical, literary, and rhetorical manifestations of " in early Christian writing, which, capitalizing on the elements of tragedy already perceptible in biblical revelation, aspired to deepen and edify Christian engagement with multiform evil and with the extreme vicissitudes of historical existence. Early Christian tragical mimetics included not only interpreting (and often amplifying) the Bible's own tragedies for contemporary audiences, but also developing models of the Christian self as a tragic self, revamping the Christian moral conscience as a tragical conscience, and cultivating a distinctively Christian tragical pathos. The study culminates in an extended consideration of the theological intelligence and accountability of " and tragical mimesis in early Christian literary culture, and the unique role of the theological virtue of hope in its repertoire of tragical emotions.

Author : Gustav Krueger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1079434840

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History of Early Christian Literature in the First Three Centuries by Gustav Krueger Pdf