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Title: All Scholarship Is Personal: David Rhoads and Performance Criticism.
Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 261 KB

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Various commentators and historians have said, "In the end, all politics is personal." The statement calls attention to the fact that the major forces that shape national and international politics are finally about the life and work of individuals. The same is true for biblical scholarship and the megatrends of the interpretation of the Bible in the church and in the wider culture. In the end, all biblical scholarship and interpretation of the Bible is personal. A specific example of this is the evolution of performance criticism and the person, David Rhoads. As a lifelong friend, I am in a privileged position to tell the story of this evolution. With David's permission, my purpose here is to tell some of the stories, both personal and communal, that have shaped this development. My purpose is also to reflect on the character and implications of performance criticism. Whether this development is of historic importance for biblical scholarship and the interpretation of the Bible in the church and the wider culture only time will tell. But it may be of immediate interest to the community of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) as it reflects on the impact of David's tenure as professor of New Testament and on the institution's future. In the end, the community will decide whether performance criticism in its various dimensions is a personal idiosyncrasy of David Rhoads and his friends or a new paradigm for the future of the understanding, interpretation, and communication of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the world. Beginnings