Prophets As Performers

Author : Jeanette Mathews
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532685548
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets as Performers written by Jeanette Mathews and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical prophets and Biblical Performance Criticism are brought together in three case studies (Elijah, Ezekiel, Jonah) presented as performances. This book proposes a new method of reading the biblical prophets with a threefold focus on creativity, commentary, and connections. With this method the many and varied performances of the prophets can be better appreciated. Critical analysis of the quintessentially performative nature of the prophets as embodied spokespersons for YHWH aids us in understanding and clarifying YHWH's message to audiences, situations, and communities of the past as well as engaging contemporary audiences.

Author : Jeanette Mathews
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532685521
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets as Performers written by Jeanette Mathews and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical prophets and Biblical Performance Criticism are brought together in three case studies (Elijah, Ezekiel, Jonah) presented as performances. This book proposes a new method of reading the biblical prophets with a threefold focus on creativity, commentary, and connections. With this method the many and varied performances of the prophets can be better appreciated. Critical analysis of the quintessentially performative nature of the prophets as embodied spokespersons for YHWH aids us in understanding and clarifying YHWH’s message to audiences, situations, and communities of the past as well as engaging contemporary audiences.

Author : William Doan
Publisher : T&T Clark
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets, Performance, and Power written by William Doan and published by T&T Clark. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes performance modes of thought imbedded in the prophetic literature through performance analysis.

Author : William Doan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567026804
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets, Performance, and Power written by William Doan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes performance modes of thought imbedded in the prophetic literature through performance analysis.

Author : Johannes de Moor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496254
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Prophet written by Johannes de Moor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Israelite prophets as historical persons, as literary characters and as anonymous artists. Whereas modern methods of literary analysis have brought the artistic qualities of the books of the Prophets increasingly into focus during the past century, various modes of deconstruction have made the historical prophets themselves an ever more elusive phenomenon. Passages in the Old Testament describing their work and experiences are not read as biography anymore, but as literary fiction intended to picture the prophets as heroes of faith. The real ‘prophets’ were the anonymous artists who were responsible for the final editing of the legacy of the historical prophets and who often used the authority of their predecessors to promulgate their own theological views. This volume brings together studies about this theme by members of the British and Dutch societies for Old Testament study. Attempts to recover some of the biographical data and authentic experiences of the prophets alternate with penetrating analyses of the theological depth and stylistic virtuosity of the prophetic books.The volume will be particularly useful to all those interested in the interpretation of the prophetic books of the Old Testament.

Author : Jeanette Mathews
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725246775
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Habakkuk written by Jeanette Mathews and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripture, like any performance, aims for transformation of its audience. In this new study Jeanette Mathews demonstrates how literature from the diverse field of performance studies can be applied to the prophetic book of Habakkuk in order to draw out themes and features that are common to both. Mathews offers a fresh new translation of Habakkuk that emphasizes and celebrates its intrinsic dramatic features. This translation provides the "script" for the performance of Habakkuk. The attitudes and actions of the "actors" in the performance become models for their "audience," such that the audience members are drawn into the performance and do not remain impartial spectators. The context of crisis that forms the book's "setting" is of crucial importance, ensuring that genres such as complaint and lament are taken seriously as expressions of faith in the midst of traumatic experience. The open-ended script makes explicit the drama of faithfulness in the midst of cultural trauma and public crises--a faithfulness that is ready to be reenacted in our own settings.

Author : Mark J. Boda
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830895833
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets written by Mark J. Boda and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPA Book Award finalist With the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets, IVP's Black Dictionary series completes its coverage of the Old Testament canonical books. A true compendium of recent scholarship, the volume includes 115 articles covering all aspects of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the twelve "minor prophets" and Daniel. Each book's historical, cultural, religious and literary background is thoroughly covered, alongside articles on interpretation history and critical method. Pastors, scholars and students will find this a deep resource for their Old Testament studies. Reference volumes in the IVP Bible Dictionary Series provide in-depth treatment of biblical and theological topics in an accessible, encyclopedia format, including cross-sectional themes, methods of interpretation, significant historical or cultural background, and each Old and New Testament book as a whole.

Author : Zach Preston Eberhart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004692037
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Characterization of the Disciples written by Zach Preston Eberhart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reimagines the first-century reception of the Gospel of Mark within a reconstructed (yet hypothetical) performance event. In particular, it considers the disciples' character and characterization through the lens of performance criticism. Questions concerning the characterization of the disciples have been relatively one-sided in New Testament scholarship, in favor of their negative characterization. This project demonstrates why such assumptions need not be necessary when we (re-)consider the oral/aural milieu in which the Gospel of Mark was first composed and received by its earliest audiences.

Author : Judith Rock
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performer as Priest and Prophet written by Judith Rock and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the elements of music and dance, their role as catalysts for religious thought, and the place of the artist in the religious community

Author : David Petersen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567492680
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roles of Israel's Prophets written by David Petersen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1981-10-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new and fruitful approach to a major area of Old Testament study. Expressing dissatisfaction with current critical theories of Israelite prophecy, which have regularly depended on the categories of office and charisma to designate essential features, Petersen looks instead to modern 'role theory' for a conceptual apparatus which can take account not only of what prophets regularly did in common but also of the significant variety apparent in Israelite prophetic performance.