Introductory

Performance Criticism

• 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
• Reflection on the Value of Performing for Interpretation | David Rhoads, Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago
• 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)
• Performance Criticism as Anti-Imperial Pedagogy | Philip Ruge-Jones from Texas Lutheran University
• 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
• Reading the Scripture as Scripts ! Jeanette Mathews in On the Road Journals
• Performance Criticism as an Exegetical Method: A Story, Three Insights, and Two Jokes | David Irobisch

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).