Introduction / Margaret E. Lee -- Sound mapping reassessed / Margaret E. Lee -- New adventures in sound mapping : a first-timer's attempt at a new methodology / Adam G. White -- Luke's strategy for interpreting parables / Bernard Brandon Scott -- Caves, cattle, and koinonia: acoustic shadows across textual walls / Jeffrey E. Brickle -- Investigations into the sound's message of Philippians 1:27--2:18 / Bernhard Obstreich -- Underexplored benefits of sound mapping in New Testament exegesis / Dan Nässelqvist -- Discourse segmentation, discourse structure, and sound mapping (including an analysis of Mark 15) / Frank Scheffers -- A sound map of Revelation 8:7-12 and the implications for ancient hearers / Kayle B. De Waal -- Rhythm, sound, and persuasion / Nina E. Livesey -- The New Testament soundscape and the puzzle of Mark 16:8 / Thomas E. Boomershine.
Summary:
"Sound matters. The New Testament's first audiences were listeners, not readers. They heard its compositions read aloud and understood their messages as linear streams of sound. To understand the New Testament's meaning in the way its earliest audiences did, we must hear its audible features and understand its words as spoken sounds. Sound Matters presents essays by ten scholars from five countries and three continents, who explore the New Testament through sound mapping, a technique invented by Margaret Lee and Bernard Scott for analyzing Greek texts as speech. Sound Matters demonstrates the value and uses of this technique as a prelude and aid to interpretation. The essays that make up this volume illustrate the wide range of interpretive possibilites that emerge when sound mapping restores the spoken sounds of the New Testament and revives its living voice."--Back cover.
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