The Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice

The Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice

Here is a challenge to New Testament scholars to engage in a fresh analysis of Q. The authors argue that recent American study of Q has been dominated by those trained in form-criticism and oriented to Hellenistic rather than Judean culture, resulting in the extreme atomization of the Q sayings and reconstructions of Jesus and his first followers as Cynics, and in the de-politicization and de-judaization of the Q materials and Jesus. Also determinative of the current situation has been the assumption in New Testament studies of textuality, of an ethos of written communication and of textual models for analysis. However, as is recently becoming clear from studies of oral and written communication, the communication situation of Jesus and his first followers was almost certainly oral. Horsley and Draper therefore contend that it is time the interpretation of Q took seriously the oral communication environment in which this material developed and continued before Matthew and Luke incorporated it into their Gospels. This book, then, applies approaches to oral-derived literature from oral theorists, socio-linguistics, ethnopoetics, and the ethnography of speaking to the Q materials. The result is a developing theory of oral performance that generates meaning as symbols articulated in the appropriate performance situation resonate with the cultural tradition in which the hearers are grounded. Richard A. Horsley is Professor of Classics and Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Jonathan A. Draper teaches at the University of Natal, South Africa.

Luanne Rice has written thirty-one novels, twenty-two of which have gone on to become New York Times bestsellers. The Lemon Orchard, Little Night, and The Silver Boat are among her most recent works. She was born in Connecticut and now lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780553587654
ISBN 10	055358765X
Title	The Edge of Winter
Author	Luanne Rice
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	2007-11-27
Number of pages	478
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