Bringing the Word to Life
Engaging the New Testament Through Performing It
Published on 27. April 2013
83 pages
978-1-4674-3764-6 (ISBN)
Description
The New Testament books were written to be read aloud. The original audiences of these texts would have been unfamiliar with our current practice of reading silently and processing with our eyes rather than our ears, so we can learn much about the New Testament through performing it ourselves. Richard Ward and David Trobisch are here to help. Bringing the Word to Life walks the reader through what we know about the culture of performance in the first and second centuries, what it took to perform an early New Testament manuscript, the benefits of performance for teaching, and practical suggestions for exploring New Testament texts through performance today.
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Richard F. Ward is Fred B. Craddock Associate Professor ofHomiletics and Worship at Phillips Theological Seminary. Hisother books include Speaking of the Holy: The Art ofCommunication in Preaching.,
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Text In Performance (RW)
- Listening With the Heart (DT)
- The Outline of This Book
- Performance In Antiquity
- Theory In Practice In Roman-Hellenistic Culture
- Quintilian's Instructions On How to Perform
- Performance from the Authors' Perspective: Pollio, Pliny, Claudius, Nero
- Performance of Tragedy In Imperial Rome
- Performance of Literature In the Early Church
- Performance of Literature In the City of Corinth
- The Role of the Audience
- Reading an Ancient Manuscript of the New Testament
- Scriptio Continua
- Nomina Sacra
- Editorial Asides
- Differences In Sentence Structure
- The Illiterate Reader
- The Reading Context: Early Christian Sanctuaries
- Summary
- How Performance Criticism Informs the Interpretation of the Text
- A Story
- Three Insights
- Performance Criticism and Form Criticism
- "Sitz im Leben"
- Jesus Tells a Bathroom Joke
- The Experimental Nature of Performance Criticism
- The Experiential Nature of Performance
- Does Performance Criticism Oppose Historical Criticism?
- Summary
- Performance Today: From Preparation to Review
- A Story
- Engaging the Script
- Advertise the Performance
- Establish the Script
- Internalize the Script
- The Components of a Story
- Perspective
- Settings
- Characters
- Conflict
- Three Approaches to Performing the Script
- Speaking the Text
- Saying It With Our Own Words
- Placing the Story In a Contemporary Setting
- Rehearsing
- Performance
- Debriefing
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
