TY - BOOK AU - Wright, Brian J. AU - AU - TI - Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus SN - 9781506432502 U1 - 270.1 CY - Minneapolis, U.S.A KW - Religion -- Biblical Studies -- History & Culture KW - Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Christians -- Books and reading N2 - 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 UR - https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/6116/communal-reading-on-the-time-of-jesus.jpg ER -