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portada First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
282
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Weight
0.42 kg.
ISBN13
9781666733822

First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences

Thomas E. Boomershine (Author) · Cascade Books · Paperback

First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences - Boomershine, Thomas E.

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Synopsis "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences"

These essays explore the reconception of the Gospels as first-century compositions of sound performed for audiences by storytellers rather than the anachronistic picture of a series of texts read by individual readers. The new paradigm implicit in these initial experiments is based on the recent realization that the majority of persons--85 to 95 percent--were illiterate and experienced the Jesus stories as members of audiences. Either from memory or from memorized manuscripts, the evangelists performed the Gospels as an evening's entertainment of two to four hours. The audiences were predominantly addressed as Hellenistic Judeans who lived in the aftermath of the Roman-Jewish war. When heard whole, the Gospels were vivid experiences of the central character of Jesus. These studies of audience address and the interactions between first-century storytellers and audiences reveal a dynamic performance literature that functioned as scripts for an ever-expanding network of storytelling proclamations whose envisioned horizon was the whole world. When the Gospels were told at one time from beginning to end, they invited the listeners to move from being peripherally interested or initially opposed to Jesus to identifying themselves as disciples of Jesus and believers in him as the Messiah.

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