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Performance criticism
Alternate Labels
- Storytelling
- Exegesis: Performance criticism / storytelling
Web Links
Key Passages
Reading List
Introductory
- Performance Criticism:An Emerging Methodology in Biblical Studies | David Rhoads from Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
- Biblical Performance Criticism: Performance as Research | David Rhoads in Oral Tradition
- Biblical Performance Criticism | website devoted to the topic
- Reflection on the Value of Performing for Interpretation | David Rhoads, Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago
- Performance Criticism as Anti-Imperial Pedagogy | Philip Ruge-Jones from Texas Lutheran University
- Reading the Scripture as Scripts ! Jeanette Mathews in On the Road Journals
Examples of Performance Criticism
- Reflections on The Mary Magdalene Tradition: Witness and Counterwitness in Early Christian Communities [Liturgical Press, 2004] and Performance Criticism | Holly Hearon (Study guide for book)
- Performing the Letter to Philemon | David M. Rhoads
- Performing the Letter to Galatians | David M. Rhoads
- Performing the Letter to James | David M. Rhoads
- Audience Address and Purpose in the Performance of Mark | Thomas E. Boomershine
- Performance Criticism as an Exegetical Method: A Story, Three Insights, and Two Jokes | David Irobisch
Biblical Performance Criticism series forthcoming in Logos
- The Bible in Ancient and Modern Media: Story and Performance edited by Holly E. Hearnon and Philip Ruge-Jones
- From Orality to Orality: A New Paradigm for Contextual Translation of the Bible by James A. Maxey
- The Case for Mark Composed in Performance by Antoinette Clark Wire
- Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel by Robert D. Miller II
Storytelling
- Biblical Storytelling and Biblical Scholarship | Tom Boomershine from United Theological Seminary
- Alter’s Art of Biblical Narrative and Oral Biblical Storytelling | Marti J. Steussy from Christian Theological Seminary
- Paper for the Seminar on Biblical Storytelling and Scholarship | Dennis Dewey
- Biblical Storytelling as Spiritual Discipline Grounded in Scholarship | Dennis Dewey
- Storytelling and the Gospels | Whitney Shiner from George Mason University
- Storytelling and the Composition of Social Space | Arthur J. Dewey
- The Intersection of Contemporary Biblical Storytelling with Storytelling in the World of Antiquity: Invitation to a Conversation | Holly E. Hearon from Christian Theological Seminary
- Storytelling and the Art of Teaching Theology | Philip Ruge-Jones from Texas Lutheran University
- Taking Place...Taking Up Space | Richard W. Swanson from Augustana College
Resource List from the Seminar of the Network of Biblical Storytellers
- Boomershine, Thomas E. Story Journey: An Invitation to the Gospel as Storytelling (Nashville:Abingdon Press, 1988).
- Dewey, Joanna, editor. Semeia 65: Orality and Textuality in Early Christian Literature (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995).
- Hearon, Holly E. The Mary Magdalene Tradition: Witness and Counter-Witness in Early Christian Communities (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004).
- Rhoads, David. Reading Mark: Engaging the Gospel (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004).
- Shiner, Whitney. Proclaiming the Gospel: First-Century Performance of Mark (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003).
- Swanson, Richard W. Provoking the Gospel of Luke (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2006).
- Swanson, Richard W. Provoking the Gospel: Methods to Embody Biblical Stoytelling through Drama (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2004).
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