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The Oral Ethos of the Early Church

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joanna DeweySeries:Biblical Performance Criticism #8Publish date:2013-10-30Pages:222
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cascade BooksISBN-13:9781606088524ISBN-10:1606088521UPC:9781606088524Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Biblical Criticism & InterpretationBook Topic:New TestamentSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC6MEMQGXB
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 Gospel of Mark within it. They demonstrate the oral style of Mark's gospel, which suggests that it was composed orally, transmitted orally in its entirety by literate and nonliterate storytellers, and survived to become part of the canon only because it was widely known orally. Women's storytelling also thrived during the first centuries of Christianity. With the transition to manuscript authority beginning in the middle of the second century, women's voices were often minimized, trivialized, or completely omitted in written versions. Further, when the Gospel of Mark was one of four written Gospels these voices were quickly ignored. An ancient audience hearing Mark performed, however, enjoyed a vibrant experience of the gospel message and its urgent call to follow.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cascade BooksISBN-13:9781606088524ISBN-10:1606088521UPC:9781606088524Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Biblical Criticism & InterpretationBook Topic:New TestamentSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC6MEMQGXB
Joanna Dewey is Harvey H. Guthrie Jr. Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has written numerous articles and is the author of Markan Public Debate (1980) and a coauthor of Mark as Story (3rd ed., 2012).
Publisher: Cascade Books

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