Performance Criticism of Biblical and Other Ancient Texts

Theoretical Structure of Biblical Performance Criticism

Tuesday, Dec 1, 2020
10:00am to 12:00pm EST
Use the AAR/SBL Meeting app on your phone or desktop to join.

Lee Johnson, East Carolina University, Presiding

Zechariah Eberhart, Loyola University of Chicago
What’s in a Name? Biblical Performance Criticism’s Questionable Genealogy (20 min)

Bernhard Oestreich, Friedensau Adventist University
Performance as Doubling of Presence (20 min)

Stetson Glass, Bangor University
Performing as a Pentecostal: An Approach to Biblical Performance Criticism in Light of Pentecostal Hermeneutics (20 min)

Kelly R. Iverson, Baylor University
Performance, Memory, and Mark: Rethinking the Approach to Intertextuality Studies (20 min)

Megan Wines, Loyola University of Chicago
"Abba Give Me a Saying": Orality and Storytelling in Monastic Egypt(20 min)

Discussion (20 min)

Scribal Memory and Scribal Performance

A new approach to text-critical "variants"

by Ray Person, Ohio Northern University

Presented in the Performance Criticism of the Bible and Other Ancient Texts (PC-BOAT)

At the SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio on 20 Nov 2021

See the 2023 book Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bibleat the SBL website.

To watch the video, click this link or watch in the window below:

https://vimeo.com/650111458