Proclaiming the Gospel first-century performance of Mark

Summary: Scholars have long understood that the texts we now know as the Gospels were read aloud in the Greco-Roman world, but few have actually envisioned what a performance of the Gospel of Mark would have been like in the first century and how it would have shaped the experience of its audience. Proclaiming the Gospel shows us. Oral performances in the New Testament world were lively affairs. In the performance of Greco-Roman theater, readers lose their voices from the stress of emotional passages. Audiences cheer for philosophers as if at a rock concert, and in law courts, they are paid for their r.

Record details

ISBN: 9780826462206 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0826462200 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1563383969
ISBN: 9781563383960
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxiii, 214 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Harrisburg, PA. : Trinity Press International, c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatBulkString:sept.20.12
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Oral performance in the ancient world -- Types of oral performance -- Emotion -- Delivery -- Memorization -- Gesture and movement -- The audience -- Applause lines -- Including the audience.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.