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Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing (Biblical Performance Criticism)

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Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research has shown, even the literate scribes learned texts by repeated recitation, while the nonliterate ordinary people had little if any direct contact with written scrolls. The texts that had taken distinctive form, moreover, were embedded in a broader and deeper cultural repertoire cultivated orally in village communities as well as in scribal circles. Only recently have some scholars struggled to appreciate texts that later became “biblical” in their own historical context of oral communication. Exploration of texts in oral performance—whether as scribal teachers’ instruction to their protégés or as prophetic speeches of Jesus of Nazareth or as the performance of a whole Gospel story in a community of Jesus-loyalists—requires interpreters to relinquish their print-cultural assumptions. Widening exploration of texts in oral performance in other fields offers exciting new possibilities for allowing those texts to come alive again in their community contexts as they resonated with the cultural tradition in which they were embedded. “Horsley synthesizes recent research in five areas—socioeconomics, oral cultures with limited literacy, oral and written scribal cultivation of texts, the developing Scriptures at Qumran, and the so-called ‘rewritten Bible’ texts—and calls for a fundamental reorientation of scholarly preconceptions in approaching the study of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Emphasizing the oral origins of Second Temple and early Christian textual traditions, and arguing that most ancients encountered the Scriptures only in oral performances, he leads the reader through an enriching tour of selected texts. Scholars, as well as general readers, will appreciate the corrective lens Horsley provides for those who are immersed in a print culture.” —Eugene Ulrich, Professor of Religion, Notre Dame Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts. Among his many books are The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel (2012) and After Apocalypticism and Wisdom (with Patrick Tiller; Cascade Books, 2012).

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