Biblical Performance Criticism

Survey and Prospects

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ID3284464
AuthorsPeter S Perry (0000-0003-1956-4626, Fuller Theological Seminary, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume10
Issue2
Pages117
Publication date2019-02-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel10020117
OpenAlexW2913712828
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited25

Biblical Performance Criticism (BPC) analyzes communication events of biblical traditions for audiences. Every communication event of a tradition has four aspects: a communicator, traditions re-expressed, an audience, and a social situation. This essay surveys the history of BPC and its current prospects and points to the future work of developing a fine-grained theoretical foundation for its work. In the analytical mode, a scholar gathers and examines data from a past performance event to describe it, and its effects, in detail. In the heuristic mode, a performer presents a tradition to an audience in order to better understand its dynamics. In the practical mode, a person reflects on the performance of biblical traditions in daily life. In these ways, BPC reunites biblical scholarship fragmented by critical reduction, and bridges the academic and popular use of biblical traditions

Aesthetics · Art · Biblical criticism · Biblical studies · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Media studies · Performing arts · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy

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