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Beyond Orality

Performance and the Composition of Biblical Poetry

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For those seeking deeper biblical understanding.

"Beyond Orality" clarifies biblical poetry's true roots.

You’ll gain fresh insights into scripture's rich meanings.

Discover a fresh perspective on biblical poetry as Jacqueline Vayntrub explores the balance between oral traditions and written texts in her insightful book, Beyond Orality.

This book examines the modern scholarly history of theorizing biblical poetry and draws out an inherent tension between theories of biblical poetry that assume an oral genesis, and the written nature of our evidence. The divide between this imagined orality and the concrete materiality of the texts is usually bridged by problematic evolutionary theories of the development of literature from oral to written. Through critical reflection upon this history of ideas and close reading of biblical poetry in its textual framing, the book advances a new conceptual framework for understanding these texts which moves beyond our inherited evolutionary paradigm and towards an awareness of the text's own manner of expression.
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  • Title

    Beyond Orality

  • Author

    Jacqueline Vayntrub

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Taylor & Francis Ltd

  • Published

    April 2018

  • Weight

    545g

  • Page Count

    232

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781138235625

  • ISBN-10

    1138235628

  • Eden Code

    4500128

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