Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q (Society for Biclical Literature Semeia Studies)

R.A., Horsley

ISBN 10: 9004151206 / ISBN 13: 9789004151208

Published by BRILL, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q (Society for Biclical Literature Semeia Studies)
• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004151206
• ISBN 13: 9789004151208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This collection of essays pursues two new approaches to Q, the speeches of Jesus paralleled in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The essays in Part One suggest that recent work in ethnopoetics, the ethnography of performance, and theory of verbal art (especially that of John Miles Foley) both complements and challenges standard approaches to the teaching of Jesus. They explore how Q speeches might be appreciated as oral performance that resonates with listeners in a community context by referencing Israelite popular tradition. The essays in Part Two examine how the work of anthropologist and political scientist James C. Scott on popular tradition, “the moral economy of the peasant,” and “hidden transcripts” may illuminate the social context and political implications of Q speeches. The contributors are David L. Barr, Joanna Dewey, Jonathan A. Draper, John Miles Foley, William R. Herzog II, Richard A. Horsley, Werner Kelber, Alan Kirk , Milton Moreland, and Vernon K. Robbins.

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

About the Author

Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at University of Massachusetts Boston. His work includes Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder; The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World; the award winning Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs (Trinity Press International), and Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul (Society of Biblical Literature).