Oral ethos of the early church : speaking, writing, and the Gospel of Mark / Joanna Dewey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewey, Joanna, 1936-

Series:

Biblical performance criticism ; 8.

Biblical performance criticism series ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Mark--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Mark.

Performance--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Performance.

Oral tradition.

Physical Description:

xviii, 204 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Or. : Cascade Books, [2013]

Summary:

To experience the gospel message as first-century people heard it is to move into an oral world, one with very little reliance on manuscripts. The essays in this book explore this oral world and the Gospel of Mark within it. They demonstrate the oral style of Mark's Gospel, which suggests that it was composed orally, transmitted orally in its entirety by literate and nonliterate storytellers, and survived to become part of the canon only because it was widely known orally. Women's storytelling also thrived during the first centuries of Christianity. With the transition to manuscript authority beginning in the middle of the second century, women's voices were often minimized, trivialized, or completely omitted in written versions. Further, when the Gospel of Mark was one of four written Gospels these voices were quickly ignored. An ancient audience hearing Mark performed, however, enjoyed a vibrant experience of the gospel message and its urgent call to follow. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Oral-Written Media World 1

1 Textuality in an Oral Culture: A Survey of the Pauline Traditions 3

2 The Gospel of John in its Oral-Written Media World 31

Part 2 Oral Patterning in Mark and Implications for Interpretation of Mark 51

3 The Literary Structure of the Controversy Stories in Mark 2:1-3:6 53

4 Mark as Interwoven Tapestry: Forecasts and Echoes for a Listening Audience 63

5 Oral Methods of Structuring Narrative in Mark 79

6 The Gospel of Mark as an Oral/Aural Event: Implications for Interpretation 93

7 The Gospel of Mark as Oral Hermeneutic 109

Part 3 Wider Implications of the Oral Media World 129

8 From Storytelling to Written Text: The Loss of Early Christian Women's Voices 131

9 Women on the Way: A Reconstruction of Late First-Century Women's Storytelling 145

10 The Survival of Mark's Gospel: A Good Story? 157

11 Our Text of Mark How Similar to First Century Versions? 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and indexes.

ISBN:

1606088521

OCLC:

863077871

Publisher Number:

99958158609