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Hearing the Scripture Reader’s Voice: Biblical Performance Criticism in the Classroom

September 4, 2020 by Tavis Bohlinger 1 Comment

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Biblical performance criticism is a methodology based on the assumption that much of the literature collected in the Bible represents oral performances that were at one time either told from memory or presented as prepared readings before audiences.1 The performance critic studies the biblical writings as oral performances with the aim to uncover certain conventions of orally performed texts—features often neglected when employing other biblical critical methodologies.

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Filed Under: Didaktikos, Greek, Hebrew, New Testament, Old Testament Tagged With: biblical studies, criticism, david seal, emotion, Isaiah, new testament, old testament, pace, preaching, shame

Look. Listen. Receive. C.S. Lewis on Reading.

September 11, 2018 by Tavis Bohlinger 3 Comments

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By Adam B. Shaeffer (PhD, Durham University)

I love C.S. Lewis. I have read and reread his works more times than I can count. Whenever someone asks me which of his books is my favorite, I point to one that often garners puzzled looks: An Experiment in Criticism. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Writing Tagged With: adam, c., christianity, criticism, cs, experiment, lewis, mere, s., shaeffer

A Fresh Approach to New Testament Scribal Habits

April 20, 2018 by Tavis Bohlinger 4 Comments

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by Alan Taylor Farnes

In 2007, James R. Royse published his exceptional study on the scribal habits of six early New Testament papyri. In his work, Royse revolutionized text critics’ understanding of the text-critical canon lectio brevior potior or, “the shorter reading is preferred”1 by demonstrating that the scribes he studied tended to omit more than they added. In its place he coined a new canon which he called lectio longior potior or, “the longer reading is preferred.” [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Greek, New Testament Tagged With: codex, criticism, Greek, manuscripts, papyrus, scribe, text

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