Orality, Memory, Performance Criticism and Related Disciplines
A Networking Event at SBL/AAR 2013 in Baltimore, MD
Friday, November 22 from 4:30 to 6:00
An informal gathering to hear reports about developments in the field. Meet others with common interests and organize into working groups to do planning: coordination among SBL/ AAR Program Units dealing with media; translation related to ancient and modern performance; publications of books, articles, and an online Biblical Performance Criticism Journal; website development at www.biblicalperformancecriticism.org; fostering contemporary performance in and outside the academy; pedagogy using performance in teaching the Bible; funding for research and events; and international meetings. Room TBA. Refreshments available. Small contribution invited at the networking event. To assist us (and to receive pre-event updates), please let us know of your plan to attend: David Rhoads at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Using Performance to Teach the Bible
Friday November 22nd 1 to 4:30pm
At SBL/AAR in Baltimore, MD
This is our second annual workshop and sharing session on using performance to engage students with biblical texts. This year's workshop includes practical means for internalizing a biblical text for performance, embodied techniques to explore a text, feminist approaches to performance and interpretation, ways of performing Pauline letters, and an opportunity to network with others doing research in performance and the bible. Cost is $25. Registration limited to the first thirty-five people to sign up. For more information, contact Phil Ruge-Jones at < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >. Sponsored by the program unit The Bible in Ancient and Modern Media. 2012 Participant testimony: "This was one of the best workshops I have attended; it opens up new, practical ways of reading and teaching the bible."
The Pathways Project
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The major purpose of the Pathways Project is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind’s oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet.
Despite superficial differences, both technologies are radically alike in depending not on static products but rather on continuous processes, not on “What?” but on “How do I get there?” In contrast to the fixed spatial organization of the page and book, the technologies of oral tradition and the Internet mime the way we think by processing along pathways within a network. In both media it’s pathways – not things – that matter.
Taking Luke’s Gospel to Heart: Creating a community of mercy and compassion
by Phil Ruge-Jones
At Ecclesia and Ethics Online Conference: “Taking Luke’s Gospel to Heart: Creating a community of mercy and compassion” on Saturday May 18th @ 11:00pm-11:50pm GMT (6pm EST, 5pm CST, 3pm PST).
Abstract:
The process of memorization and performance of the text such as Luke’s Gospel is transformative for a community of storytellers. Embodying Jesus’ stories of compassion and mercy in liturgical performance offers a concrete reference point for these abstract virtues; we see what mercy looks like in action. We increase our repertoire of responses to life’s challenges by knowing the patterns of response that Jesus offers us through Luke’s account. Storytelling establishes a place where caring, mutuality, and ethical attentiveness take place, forming us into the people of God. In a circle of diverse storytellers and story hearers, we can begin to uncover together the elements of our stories that invite suspicion and struggle, as well as the elements that offer new ethical and spiritual directions for our lives. Character is formed when our community lives into Luke’s Gospel and its call to live lives of mercy, hope, and active compassion.
A sample of Ruge-Jones performing a biblical text is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3pNg-nwkVo
Performance Criticism
- What is Performance Criticism?
- Assumptions, Applications, Assessment by Ernst Wendland
- Preparing to Perform by Phil Ruge-Jones
- Performing Philemon, Galatians, James by David Rhoads
Our Purpose
- To promote Performance Criticism
- To report developments in this emerging discipline
- To be a clearinghouse for resources
- To provide a network for scholars and performers
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