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Article: Performance criticism: an emerging methodology in Second Testament studies--Part II.(Critical essay)
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- Biblical Theology Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Abstract
In Part I of this article, I sought to depict performance criticism as an emerging discipline in Second Testament studies. I explained how the first-century Mediterranean area comprised predominantly oral cultures, that writing primarily served orality, that performances were central to early Christian communities, and that the Second Testament writings were basically "remnants" of oral performances. I proposed an outline of the key features of the performance event in an effort to encourage us to interpret Second Testament writings in the context of such performance scenarios. Part 2 comprises two sections. In the first section, I want to lay out the ...
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