Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus

Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus
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Publisher : Fortress Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781506438498
ISBN-13 : 1506438490
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Book Synopsis Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus by : Brian J. Wright

Download or read book Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus written by Brian J. Wright and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice in the first century.


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