Michal Beth Dinkler
Biographic Data
| ID | 5652987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michal Beth Dinkler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michal Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Dinkler |
| SIGNATURE | DINKLER M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Episcopal Divinity School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2999-020X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Re-forming Our Understandings of Literary Form
Recently, literary scholarship has seen a resurgence of interest in literary formalisms and related ways of reading, as well as robust theorizing at the intersections of narratology and rhetorical studies. Consequently, the present moment is an opportune time for Lukan scholars to revisit and revise longstanding assumptions about literature, »the literary,« and narrative form. After reviewing traditional treatments of Lukes literary style, substa…
Narrative Design of the Synoptics
Traditionally, discussions of Synoptic narrative design have drawn heavily from the subfield of literary formalism in order to illuminate constitutive components of story like plot, character, setting, and time. This chapter advocates engagement with the so-called New Formalism, which seeks to revive “old” formalists’ attention to narrative form and structure, while addressing critiques of formalism’s earlier iterations. After an introduction to …
Interior Monologue in Ancient and Modern Literature
Pauline Epistles as Affective Technologies
This article explores the affective potentials of the Pauline epistles by extending a proposal that I made in my book, Literary Theory and the New Testament . There, I suggested that we conceive of epistles as meaning-bearing beings that give rise to what I called epistolary embodiment . Here, I seek to create space for the inherent precarity of epistolary communication by exploring the uncontrollable interstices between affect, emotion, embodime…
The Narrative Rhetoric of Speech and Silence in the Acts of the Apostles
Approaches to ancient texts that focus exclusively on speech are inherently imbalanced. Far from simply an innocuous absence of language, silence can carry thundering significances. Yet, these meanings are not always obvious, and they can be especially difficult to interpret in texts , without attendant non-verbal cues such as facial expressions or gestures. How can New Testament interpreters best discern and describe the interwoven words, whispe…
The Politics of Stephen’s Storytelling
Taking Stephen’s lengthy speech in Acts 7:2–53 as its case study, this paper considers the complex ways that narratives function politically, and especially how the author of Acts constructs the act of storytelling as a purposive persuasive strategy within the complex political landscape of the first-century Mediterranean world. Although some have interpreted Stephen’s speech in light of ancient rhetorical conventions, I contend that Stephen is n…
Interpreting Pedagogical Acts
This article foregrounds a fact so basic that it often goes unnoticed: stories frequently depict the acts of reading and/or interpreting stories; many narratives are themselves concerned with proper modes of narrative interpretation. I contend that such scenes work rhetorically to inculcate particular kinds of hermeneutical skills in their audiences, and thus can be read as pedagogical scenarios vis-à-vis implied readers. I begin the article by i…
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Interpreting Pedagogical Acts
This article foregrounds a fact so basic that it often goes unnoticed: stories frequently depict the acts of reading and/or interpreting stories; many narratives are themselves concerned with proper modes of narrative interpretation. I contend that such scenes work rhetorically to inculcate particular kinds of hermeneutical skills in their audiences, and thus can be read as pedagogical scenarios vis-à-vis implied readers. I begin the article by i…
The Politics of Stephen’s Storytelling
Taking Stephen’s lengthy speech in Acts 7:2–53 as its case study, this paper considers the complex ways that narratives function politically, and especially how the author of Acts constructs the act of storytelling as a purposive persuasive strategy within the complex political landscape of the first-century Mediterranean world. Although some have interpreted Stephen’s speech in light of ancient rhetorical conventions, I contend that Stephen is n…
The Narrative Rhetoric of Speech and Silence in the Acts of the Apostles
Approaches to ancient texts that focus exclusively on speech are inherently imbalanced. Far from simply an innocuous absence of language, silence can carry thundering significances. Yet, these meanings are not always obvious, and they can be especially difficult to interpret in texts , without attendant non-verbal cues such as facial expressions or gestures. How can New Testament interpreters best discern and describe the interwoven words, whispe…
Pauline Epistles as Affective Technologies
This article explores the affective potentials of the Pauline epistles by extending a proposal that I made in my book, Literary Theory and the New Testament . There, I suggested that we conceive of epistles as meaning-bearing beings that give rise to what I called epistolary embodiment . Here, I seek to create space for the inherent precarity of epistolary communication by exploring the uncontrollable interstices between affect, emotion, embodime…
Narrative Design of the Synoptics
Traditionally, discussions of Synoptic narrative design have drawn heavily from the subfield of literary formalism in order to illuminate constitutive components of story like plot, character, setting, and time. This chapter advocates engagement with the so-called New Formalism, which seeks to revive “old” formalists’ attention to narrative form and structure, while addressing critiques of formalism’s earlier iterations. After an introduction to …
Interior Monologue in Ancient and Modern Literature
Re-forming Our Understandings of Literary Form
Recently, literary scholarship has seen a resurgence of interest in literary formalisms and related ways of reading, as well as robust theorizing at the intersections of narratology and rhetorical studies. Consequently, the present moment is an opportune time for Lukan scholars to revisit and revise longstanding assumptions about literature, »the literary,« and narrative form. After reviewing traditional treatments of Lukes literary style, substa…
Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)