Clifford Barbarick
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Rhetoric of the Canon: Obadiah and Jonah
The Rhetoric of the Canon
Obadiah and Jonah
Paper and Performance by Cliff Barbarick, November 19, 2022
Performance Criticism of the Bible and Other Ancient Media (PC-BOAT)
Recent interpretation of the Book of the Twelve has enriched our understanding of each individual prophetic book by recognizing it as a part of a larger composition. Using performance criticism, this presentation builds on those insights, moving beyond identifying linguistic, stylistic, or thematic links across the Book of the Twelve in order to explore the rhetorical impact that the arrangement of the books has on an audience. Specifically, by performing Obadiah and Jonah in their canonical order, the presentation will invite a present-day audience to experience how these two prophetic books interact with one another to shape an audience's attitudes toward and engagement with the "other" perceived as the enemy.
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SBL 2021-Philippians
Philippians
Performance and Analysis
by Clifford Barbarick, Abilene Christian University
Presented in the Performance Criticism of the Bible and Other Ancient Texts (PC-BOAT)
At the SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio on 20 Nov 2021
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