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Article: Twice Used Songs: Performance Criticism of the Songs of Ancient Israel
- Article from:
- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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TERRY GILES AND WILLIAM J. DOAN, Twice Used Songs: Performance Criticism of the Songs of Ancient Israel (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2009). Pp. xviii + 179. Paper $27.95.
Twice Used Songs provides the first book-length comparative analysis of inset songs in the Hebrew Bible since a flurry of such studies in the 1990s (including one by this reviewer). Giles and Doan approach the subject from the perspective of performance studies. Their first chapter summarizes the various theoretical strands that have shaped the emergence of "performance" as a theoretical lens in recent theater studies, philosophy, theories of cultural memory, and ritual studies. They do not attempt to arbitrate conflicts ...