Performances of Ancient Jewish Letters: From Elephantine to MMT

Updated by: 
Michal Drori Elmalem
Research notes: 
MDE/reader checked/31/01/2016
Reference type: 
Book
Author(s): 
Lloyd Miller, Marvin
year: 
2015
Full title: 

Performances of Ancient Jewish Letters: From Elephantine to MMT

Issue / Series Volume: 
20
Series Title: 
Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements
Abbreviated Series Name: 
JAJSup
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Marvin Lloyd Miller combines a wide range of approaches to cast new light on the form and function of several ancient Jewish letters in a variety of languages. He applies a new emerging field of performance theory to texts, and argues that letters and other documents were not just read in silence, as is normal today, but were “performed,” especially when they were addressed to a community. The Performance focuses closely on the ways in which the engagement of the audience during the performance of a text might be read from traces present in the text itself.

Hebrew bible: 
Book: 
Ezra
Chapter(s): 
5
Verse(s): 
6-17
Book: 
Jeremiah
Chapter(s): 
29
Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: 
Composition / Author: 
Additions to Esther
Composition / Author: 
2 Maccabees
Passage: 
1:1-2:18
Label: 
21/12/2015
Record number: 
101 064