Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus a Window into Early Christian Reading Practices
Brian J. Wright
- Minneapolis, U.S.A The Fortress 2017
- 293tr. Hardcover 24cm
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
9781506432502
Religion -- Biblical Studies -- History & Culture Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Christians -- Books and reading