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- Nässelqvist, Dan, et al.
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Dual Conventions : The Oral Delivery of New Testament Writings in Light of First-Century Delivery Practices
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Ingår i: Social Memory and Social Identity in the Study of Early Judaism and Early Christianity. - Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. - 1420-4592. - 9783525593752 - 9783647593753 ; 116, s. 111-124
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nässelqvist’s contribution examines different models for understanding the oral delivery of New Testament writings. He finds evidence in favor of the existence in antiquity of both oral performance from memory and public reading directly from a manuscript. These types of oral delivery not only involved different delivery practices, but were also used in dissimilar settings for distinct text genres. For example, Nässelqvist finds that oral performance was largely confined to the delivery of oratory and drama, whereas public reading was used for all literary genres (including oratory and drama). In the second half of the chapter, Nässelqvist examines early Christian sources and finds that they describe the oral delivery of New Testament writings in terms of public reading (rather than as oral performance, a notion forwarded by scholars engaged in performance criticism). Finally, the practical details of the two types of delivery are compared in relation to the stance of the performer, the skills required, and the use of gestures, movement, facial expressions, vocal expression, manuscripts, and furniture.
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- Westergren, Andreas, et al.
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Monastic Space : The Ascetic Between Sacred and Civil Spheres in Theodoret of Cyrrhus
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Ingår i: Spaces in Late Antiquity : Cultural, Theological and Archaeological Perspectives. - 9781472450166
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Syrian monasticism has often been judged by its extremes, with Symeon the Stylite as the prime example of someone leaving the human world behind to reach for God. In this interpretation, hagiographical renderings seem only to underline an opposition between sacred and civil spheres, between the cells of the ascetics and human society. With this article, however, I wish to call such a conclusion into question with the help of one of the more well-known textual sources about Symeon and the other Syrian ascetics, Theodoret's Philotheos Historia (PH). My aim is to examine how different ascetic environments are displayed in the PH, to see if and how they are related to longstanding ideas and ideals about civilization. My concern is therefore not so much the historical places (or circumstances) of the ascetics as Theodoret's literary presentations of monastic space. In the end, I will suggest a "one-space-model", where I will argue that the different locations of ascetics are exhibited along a graded scale, which situates them differently between the poles of human and divine realms, and that there is room for moving in both directions. In fact, the evolution of the monastic movement in Syria is depicted as an ongoing civilization in the PH.
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