Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus: A Window into Early Christian Reading Practices

Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus: A Window into Early Christian Reading Practices
ISBN-10
1506438490
ISBN-13
9781506438498
Category
Religion
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2017-12-01
Publisher
Fortress Press
Author
Brian J. Wright

Description

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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