Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus: A Window Into Early Christian Reading Practices

by Brian J. Wright

Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns that premise by examining evidence that demonstrates communal reading events in the first century. Wright disproves the simplistic notion that only a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506432506
• ISBN13: 9781506432502
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"