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    612-822-4611

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Performing Habakkuk

Performing Habakkuk

Mathews, Jeanette

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Bible Studies

ISBN10: 1610975731
ISBN13: 9781610975735
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Jun 1 2012
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Scripture, like any performance, aims for transformation of its audience. In this new study Jeanette Mathews demonstrates how literature from the diverse field of performance studies can be applied to the prophetic book of Habakkuk in order to draw out themes and features that are common to both. Mathews offers a fresh new translation of Habakkuk that emphasizes and celebrates its intrinsic dramatic features. This translation provides the script for the performance of Habakkuk. The attitudes and actions of the actors in the performance become models for their audience, such that the audience members are drawn into the performance and do not remain impartial spectators. The context of crisis that forms the book's setting is of crucial importance, ensuring that genres such as complaint and lament are taken seriously as expressions of faith in the midst of traumatic experience. The open-ended script makes explicit the drama of faithfulness in the midst of cultural trauma and public crises--a faithfulness that is ready to be reenacted in our own settings.

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