Reading Acts

The Lector and the Early Christian Audience
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-391-04216-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

William Shiell proposes that the book of Acts was performed orally by a lector in the early church following Greco-Roman rhetorical conventions for recitation and delivery rather than directly read by an audience that was minimally literate. Shiell’s study outlines the function of the lector in Greco-Roman times as a filter through which an audience would receive a text. He describes the conventions for performers’ gestures, facial expressions, and vocal inflections found in material from Greco-Roman literature and art that are mirrored in the book of Acts. He examines how a reading of Acts in this light can fill interpretive gaps left by literary and rhetorical-critical studies that focus on the reading rather than the hearing of biblical texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shiell, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Bibelwissenschaften: Sachbuch, Erbauung, Didaktik

Über Autor(innen)

William D. Shiell, Ph.D. (2003) in Religion (Biblical Studies), Baylor University, is Senior Pastor of Southland Baptist Church in San Angelo, Texas.