Performing Habakkuk

by Jeanette Mathews

Scripture, like any performance, aims for transformation of its audience. In this new study Jeanette Mathews demonstrates how literature from the diverse field of performance studies can be applied to the prophetic book of Habakkuk in order to draw out themes and features that are common to both. Mathews offers a fresh new translation of Habakkuk that emphasizes and celebrates its intrinsic dramatic features. This translation provides the "script"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610975731
• ISBN13: 9781610975735
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"