Exploring gesture and nonverbal communication in the Bible and the ancient world
Traditionally gesture and other forms of nonverbal communication have been the object of research of inter alia cultural anthropologists. linguists and social psychologists. Historians have only rather recently begun to show an interest in various kinds of nonverbal communication (which include gest...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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NTWSA
1996
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| In: |
Neotestamentica
Year: 1996, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-19 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Greco-roman world B Noverbal communication B Christianity B Study of gesture |
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| Summary: | Traditionally gesture and other forms of nonverbal communication have been the object of research of inter alia cultural anthropologists. linguists and social psychologists. Historians have only rather recently begun to show an interest in various kinds of nonverbal communication (which include gestures as one possible avenue to the cultural codes and social sensibilities of the pest. The study of nonverbal communication and gesture is of course not a totally neglected field. but so far the exciting trends in this field have received scant attention from especially historians and Biblical scholars. This article is an exploratory venture which seeks to identify the current state of affairs in the field as well as an examination of the possibilities a better understanding of gesture and nonverbal communication holds for interpreting ancient texts and the societies that have produced them a little better. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/AJA2548356_428 |