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Performing Early Christian Literature
Audience Experience and Interpretation of the Gospels

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  • Date Published: October 2021
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781316516225

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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.

    • Introduces a robust and diverse methodological discussion to understand audience experience in performance.
    • Demonstrates the hermeneutical distinctiveness of audience experience in performance.
    • Provides in-depth examples from the NT Gospels.
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    '… the book will serve practitioners of the Bible as they preach and teach to their respective congregations, providing them with a historical context (the original performance) in which to consider in new and refreshing ways the text as it was initially delivered.' David Seal, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

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    Product details

    • Date Published: October 2021
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781316516225
    • length: 256 pages
    • dimensions: 223 x 145 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.45kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Introduction
    2. Foundations of Audience Experience
    3. Aspects of Audience Engagement: The Emotional Experience
    4. Aspects of Audience Engagement: The Nonverbal/Sensory Experience
    5. Aspects of Audience Engagement: The Memorial Experience
    6. Conclusion.

  • Author

    Kelly Iverson, Baylor University, Texas
    Kelly R. Iverson is Associate Professor of New Testament at Baylor University. He is the author or editor of From Text to Performance: Narrative and Performance Criticisms in Dialogue and Debate (2014), Mark as Story: Retrospect and Prospect (2011), and Gentiles in the Gospel of Mark: 'Even the Dogs under the Table Eat the Children's Crumbs' (2007).

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