Public Reading in Early Christianity

Lectors, Manuscripts, and Sound in the Oral Delivery of John 1-4
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30629-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 163, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

In Public Reading in Early Christianity: Lectors, Manuscripts, and Sound in the Oral Delivery of John 1-4 Dan Nässelqvist investigates the oral delivery of New Testament writings in early Christian communities of the first two centuries C.E. He examines the role of lectors and public reading in the Greek and Roman world as well as in early Christianity. Nässelqvist introduces a method of sound analysis, which utilizes the correspondence between composition and delivery in ancient literary writings to retrieve information about oral delivery from the sound structures of the text being read aloud. Finally he applies the method of sound analysis to John 1–4 and presents the implications for our understanding of public reading and the Gospel of John.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nässelqvist, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Pragmatics of Reading
3. Lectors in Early Christian Communities
4. A Method of Sound Analysis
5. John 1 – Introducing Jesus
6. John 2 – Jesus in Action
7. John 3 – Jesus in Discourse
8. John 4 – Jesus in Samaria
9. Conclusions and Implications

Über Autor(innen)

Dan Nässelqvist, Ph.D. (2014), Lund University, is senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has previously published a textbook in New Testament Greek (Studentlitteratur, 2014).