Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Characterization of the Disciples

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69172-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 220, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eberhart, Zach Preston

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

1 The Why: Mark’s Disciple Problem

2 The What: the Hypothetical Performance Event – Some Assumptions

3 The How: a Summary of What Follows

1 Whence and Whither: Biblical Performance Criticism

1 Phase 1: Avant la lettre

2 Phase 2: David Rhoads and the Emergence of Biblical Performance Criticism

3 Phase 3: the Pendulum Swings Back

4 Phase 4: after Rhoads

5 Summary

2 Strange Bedfellows? Characters and Characterization in Performance

1 Characters and Characterization in Biblical Performance Criticism

2 Characters and Characterization in Performance in Homeric Studies and Classical Scholarship

3 Characters and Characterization in Shakespearean Performance

4 Summary/Conclusions

3 What’s in a Name? Between Script and Scripture

1 A Question of Ontology: What Is the Gospel of Mark?

2 Current Metaphors in Use for Understanding Ancient Textuality

3 A Proposal of Supplementary Metaphors: Script and Scripture

4 The Limits of Script and Scripture as Metaphors for Determining our Object of Study

5 Conclusions

4 To Be or Not to Be? Mark’s Disciples in Performance

1 Performance Criticism and Mark’s Disciples

2 Traditional Characterization and Mark’s Disciples in Performance

3 A Linear Experience of Mark’s Disciples in Performance

4 To Be or Not to Be? The Rhetorical Effect of Mark’s Disciples in Performance

5 Conclusion

1 Where We Have Been

2 Where Do We Go from Here?

3 Final Remarks

Reference List

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zechariah Eberhart, Ph.D. (2023), Loyola University Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Point University.