Networking on Orality, Memory, Performance and Other Related Disciplines

2021 SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio

Theme: The Bible, Performance, and Social Location

We explored the impact of social and cultural location on the process of meaning-making when a text is performed by various bodies in space and time. Questions we considered included: "How does the body and voice of an interpreter impact the interpretation in performance?” and “How might performance open up conversations in class, in worship gatherings, and in research about the role of social location (in the ancient world and today) in our understanding and use of Scripture?”

You can watch the large group presentations and discussions:

https://vimeo.com/650347645

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