
Performance Criticism of the Pauline Letters
Bernhard Oestreich(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 28. October 2016
366 pages
978-1-4982-9832-2 (ISBN)
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Receiving a letter from Paul was a major event in the early churches. Given the orally oriented culture of the time, a letter was designed to be read out loud in front of an audience. The document was an intermediate state for the local transport of the message, but the actual medium of communication was the performance event. This event was embedded in the written text in a manner comparable to a theater script. After careful preparation because of high expectations from ancient audiences, a presenter embodied the message with his voice, gazes, and gestures and made it not only understood but jointly experienced.
After presenting a short history of performance criticism, this book clarifies what is meant by the highly ambiguous term "performance" and develops steps to analyze ancient texts in order to find and understand the embedded signals of performance. This leads to a critical assessment of the potential of performance criticism as a method. Then, the method is applied to the Pauline Epistles and other early Christian letters. It proves to be highly rewarding: difficult passages become comprehensible, new aspects come to light, the text's impact on the audience is felt--in short, the texts come alive.
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Bernhard Oestreich is Professor of New Testament at Friedensau Adventist University, Germany. His ongoing interest in the way a message takes effect, both in biblical times as well as in today's sermon, is reflected in his earlier publications: Metaphors and Similes for Yahweh in the Book of Hosea 14:2-9 (1-8) (1998) and two books on homiletics (2003 and 2015).
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