An Oral Reading of the Golden Rule and its Significance for Matthew 7:12
It has been argued that oral theory can provide "an alternative to the tradition/redaction cul-de-sac" (Botha 2012, xv) but, if so, can texts produced orally be re-oralized? John Miles Foley (1995) has argued that it can, and his theoretical framework and methodology is explored by testing...
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| Language: | English |
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2023
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2023, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-24 |
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| Summary: | It has been argued that oral theory can provide "an alternative to the tradition/redaction cul-de-sac" (Botha 2012, xv) but, if so, can texts produced orally be re-oralized? John Miles Foley (1995) has argued that it can, and his theoretical framework and methodology is explored by testing them using the Golden Rule in Matt 7:12 as an exemplar. Using Foley’s determination of the performance arena by careful "triangulation and following the chain of interlocking metonomy" in all the examples of the Golden Rules available to me I read the text of Matthew in this oral register to "key ourselves into the performance arena" through the signals and gaps it provides. The key binary metonym for this particular triangulation is found in "walking two ways" and this in turn relates to the master myth of ‘covenantal nomism’, the entry of Israel into the Land and the terms required by God, namely Torah. The consistent role of the Golden Rule in the oral tradition is that of a Summary of the Torah. The negative form of the Rule is normative, but the positive form found in Matthew presents a new "dialect" found only in the Christian tradition. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2023.a938401 |