Possession and sacrifice in the New Testament and African traditional religion
Literary analyses of the Bible abound with casual references to the oral power of the text. However, the residual orality of the Biblical text is rarely regarded as a source for literary information. In this paper I propose a broad model based on the conventions of oral culture for understanding lit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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NTWSA
2003
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2003, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-245 |
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| Summary: | Literary analyses of the Bible abound with casual references to the oral power of the text. However, the residual orality of the Biblical text is rarely regarded as a source for literary information. In this paper I propose a broad model based on the conventions of oral culture for understanding literary formation in the NT. For this purpose I shall review the manner in which the world of the spirits is reflected in some key passages. I shall then investigate some oral conventions for communicating with the spirit world using similar formations in African traditional religion as a remote reference. This provides valuable clues regarding the formation of the New Testament text. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83143 |