Prophets, Performance, and Power: Performance Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

by William Doan and Terry Giles

-Provides the first ever use of performance criticism to analyze Old Testament, or biblical, texts. -Shows that prophetic activity, especially Amos, functions as drama and theater in the same way that Oedipus does. -Offers to general readers a new way of reading and thinking about the Old Testament prophets. Embedded in portions of the biblical text are performance modes of thought that preserve a pre-literary way of thinking that can be analyzed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567026809
• ISBN13: 9780567026804
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"