The Narrative Rhetoric of Speech and Silence in the Acts of the Apostles
Approaches to ancient texts that focus exclusively on speech are inherently imbalanced. Far from simply an innocuous absence of language, silence can carry thundering significances. Yet, these meanings are not always obvious, and they can be especially difficult to interpret in texts, without attend...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2021]
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New Testament studies
Год: 2021, Том: 67, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 1-21 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Bibel. Apostelgeschichte
/ Теория рассказа
/ Риторика
/ Речь (мотив)
/ Молчание (мотив)
/ Немота
/ Молчание (мотив)
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| Индексация IxTheo: | HC Новый Завет |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Narratology
B Silence B Speech B Narrative Criticism B Rhetoric B Luke-Acts B Acts of the Apostles |
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| Итог: | Approaches to ancient texts that focus exclusively on speech are inherently imbalanced. Far from simply an innocuous absence of language, silence can carry thundering significances. Yet, these meanings are not always obvious, and they can be especially difficult to interpret in texts, without attendant non-verbal cues such as facial expressions or gestures. How can New Testament interpreters best discern and describe the interwoven words, whispers, silences and subtexts of ancient narratives? In this article, I seek to build on my earlier narratological study of speech and silence, Silent Statements: Narrative Representations of Speech and Silence in the Gospel of Luke. There, I demonstrate how focusing on silences as well as speech enriches our understanding of the narratological dimensions of Luke's Gospel, including Lukan plot, characterisation, theme(s) and readerly experience(s). The obvious next step is to extend this work to the Lukan sequel. The guiding question of this article is therefore: how do speech and silence contribute to the narrative rhetoric of the Acts of the Apostles? |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688520000247 |