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  • Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus

  • A Window into Early Christian Reading Practices
  • By: Brian J. Wright
  • Narrated by: William Sarris
  • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus

By: Brian J. Wright
Narrated by: William Sarris
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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 that premise by examining evidence that demonstrates communal reading events in the first century.

Wright disproves the simplistic notion that only a small segment of society in certain urban areas could have been involved in such communal reading events during the first century; rather, communal reading permeated a complex, multifaceted cultural field in which early Christians, Philo, and many others participated. His study thus pushes the academic conversation back by at least a century and raises important new questions regarding the formation of the Jesus tradition, the contours of book culture in early Christianity, and factors shaping the transmission of the text of the New Testament. These fresh insights have the potential to inform historical reconstructions of the nature of the earliest churches as well as the story of canon formation and textual transmission.

©2017 Brian J. Wright (P)2021 Grace and Mercy Foundation
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Superb Audiobook Content and Production

I bought this as a recommendation by Michael Kruger (at canon fodder) along with:

CREATING the CANON Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament BENJAMIN P. LAIRD Laird, Benjamin P.. Creating the Canon (pp. 1-III). InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition.

I have been helped and pleased with both books, and recommend them to others.

The audiobook/hardback combo of this book and the latter mentioned above are must-haves for anyone interested in sharpening formerly lacking historical approaches to liberal (and conservative) text-critical studies.

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