The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres

Ed. By Coote, Robert B. And Weissenrieder, Annette; Coote, Robert B.; Weissenrieder, Annette

ISBN 10: 3161504453 / ISBN 13: 9783161504457

Published by Mohr Siebeck, 2010

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452 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3161504453
• ISBN 13: 9783161504457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.82 kilograms

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Synopsis

How did the visual, the oral, and the written interrelate in antiquity? The essays in this collection address the competing and complementary roles of visual media, forms of memory, oral performance, and literacy and popular culture in the ancient Mediterranean world. Incorporating both customary and innovative perspectives, the essays advance the frontiers of our understanding of the nature of ancient texts as regards audibility and performance, the vital importance of the visual in the comprehension of texts, and basic concepts of communication, particularly the need to account for disjunctive and non-reciprocal social relations in communication. Thus the contributions show how the investigation of the interface of the oral and written, across the spectrum of seeing, hearing, and writing, generates new concepts of media and mediation.

About the Author

Robert B. Coote, is Nathaniel Gray Professor of Hebrew Exegesis and Old Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union.Annette Weissenrieder, Born 1967; Associate professor of New Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union; Dr. theol. (University of Heidelberg); main areas of research: Theology of Paul and the Synoptic Gospels, Greco-Roman medicine and philosophy, New Testament anthropology, pneumatology, theories of the history of religion, Roman domestic art, numismatic, and architecture.