Orality and Literacy in Early Christianity

2012-11-01
Orality and Literacy in Early Christianity

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  • Author: Pieter Botha
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 160608898X
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 318

The history of the Jesus movement and earliest Christianity requires careful attention to the characteristics and peculiarities of oral and literate traditions. Understanding the distinctive elements of Greco-Roman literacy potentially has profound implications for the historical understanding of the documents and events involved. Concepts such as media criticism, orality, manuscript culture, scribal writing, and performative reading are explored in these chapters. The scene of Greco-Roman literacy is analyzed by investigating writing and reading practices. These aspects are then related to early Christian texts such as the Gospel of Mark and sections from Paul's letters.

Orality and Literacy in Early Christianity

2012-11-01
Orality and Literacy in Early Christianity

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  • Author: Pieter Botha
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1621899039
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

The history of the Jesus movement and earliest Christianity requires careful attention to the characteristics and peculiarities of oral and literate traditions. Understanding the distinctive elements of Greco-Roman literacy potentially has profound implications for the historical understanding of the documents and events involved. Concepts such as media criticism, orality, manuscript culture, scribal writing, and performative reading are explored in these chapters. The scene of Greco-Roman literacy is analyzed by investigating writing and reading practices. These aspects are then related to early Christian texts such as the Gospel of Mark and sections from Paul's letters.

Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity

2004
Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity

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  • Author: Jonathan A. Draper
  • Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
  • ISBN: 1589831314
  • Category : Colonies
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

Religious scholars take up various questions relating to the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of colonized people in antiquity, and explore the role of orality in relation to this hegemony. Among the topics are theoretical and methodological foundations, Mithra's cult as an example of religious colonialism in Roman times, th

Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion

2011-06-22
Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion

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  • Author: AndrĂ© Lardinois
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004194126
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 430

Surveying the variety of ways in which written texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were intricately connected in both Greek and Roman state and private religions.

Orality and Literacy

2003-12-16
Orality and Literacy

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  • Author: Walter J. Ong
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134461615
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology. In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other. This is a book no reader, writer or speaker should be without.

Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World

2011-12-09
Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World

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  • Author: Elizabeth Minchin
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004217746
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included.

Between Orality and Literacy: Communication and Adaptation in Antiquity

2014-06-05
Between Orality and Literacy: Communication and Adaptation in Antiquity

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  • Author: Ruth Scodel
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004270973
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 397

The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect. Their topics range from Homer and Hesiod to the New Testament and Gaius’ Institutes, from epic poetry and drama to vase painting, historiography, mythography, and the philosophical letter.

Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

2016-06-10
Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

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  • Author: Jacqueline E. Jay
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004323074
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 373

In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of a parallel oral tradition, focusing in particular on the corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period.

Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus

2017-12-01
Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus

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  • Author: Brian J. Wright
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • ISBN: 1506438490
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 319

Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice in the first century.

Books and Readers in the Early Church

1995-01-01
Books and Readers in the Early Church

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  • Author: Harry Y. Gamble
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300069181
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 356

This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.