How the "New Testament" Shaped Deaf People at St Saviour’s, Oxford Street: A Study in Reception History and in Reception Exegesis
Within the burgeoning area of the Bible's reception history is a variant approach, termed "reception exegesis" by Paul Joyce and Diana Lipton. Investigation of an occasion of reception can generate new insights into the meaning of the biblical texts, they suggest. Introducing the resu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
[2017]
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Relegere
Year: 2017, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-187 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Markusevangelium 7,32-35
/ Reader-response criticism
/ London
/ Deaf-mute person
/ Church congregation
/ History 1873-1923
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HA Bible KBF British Isles |
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| Summary: | Within the burgeoning area of the Bible's reception history is a variant approach, termed "reception exegesis" by Paul Joyce and Diana Lipton. Investigation of an occasion of reception can generate new insights into the meaning of the biblical texts, they suggest. Introducing the results of a Leverhulme Trust Research Project on Britain’s first purpose-built deaf church to a scholarly readership interested in biblical reception, I show here how the New Testament—especially Mark 7:32-37—was used to construct the deaf people of Victorian London. Specific details of my argument will be compared with the Markan text as constructed by modern commentators in order to test Joyce and Lipton’s hypothesis. The article questions reception exegesis’s usefulness as a generator of long-term interest in biblical studies and proposes a different response to its difficulties, that biblical scholars dedicate themselves to developing a broad conception of reception history in order to generate collaborations across disciplinary boundaries while they are still in a position to do so. |
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| ISSN: | 1179-7231 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Relegere
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.11157/rsrr6-2-756 |