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Jeremiah's Scribes

Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England [Hardback]

by Meredith Marie Neuman

    • Author

      Meredith Marie Neuman

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      University of Pennsylvania Press

    • Published

      June 2013

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      New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. In Jeremiah's Scribes, Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the lived experience of the sermon. By reconstructing the aural culture of sermons in Puritan New England, Neuman shifts our attention from the pulpit to the pew to demonstrate the many ways in which sermon auditors helped to shape this dominant genre of Puritan New England. Tracing the material transmission of sermon texts by readers and writers, hearers and notetakers, Jeremiah's Scribes challenges the notion of stable authorship by individual ministers. Instead, Neuman illuminates a mode of textual production that pervaded communities and occurred in the overlapping media of print, manuscript, and speech. Even printed sermons, she demonstrates, bore the traces of their roots in the oral culture of the meetinghouse.
      Bringing material considerations to bear on anxieties over the perceived relationship between divine and human language, Jeremiah's Scribes broadens our understanding of all Puritan literature. Neuman examines the controlling logic of the sermon in relation to nonsermonic writing-such as conversion narrative-ultimately suggesting the fundamental permeability among disparate genres of Puritan writing.

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      • Author

        Meredith Marie Neuman

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        University of Pennsylvania Press

      • Published

        June 2013

      • Weight

        613g

      • Page Count

        280

      • Dimensions

        163 x 232 x 31 mm

      • ISBN

        9780812245059

      • ISBN-10

        0812245059

      • Eden Code

        4073535

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      • Author/Creator: Meredith Marie Neuman

      • ISBN: 9780812245059

      • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

      • Release Date: June 2013

      • Weight: 613g

      • Dimensions: 163 x 232 x 31 mm

      • Eden Code: 4073535


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