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  • From: "Perry L. Stepp" <plstepp AT flash.net>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Reading Paul
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:24:42 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: David Reist <dmreist AT netspeed.com.au>


>Would you be able to explain 'authorial audience' -
>I have not seen Jauss and Rabinowitz's work. Is
>it similiar to 'intended reader' as used in narrative
>criticism?


"Reading from the perspective of the authorial audience" is much like
reading from the perspective of the intended reader. The overarching
question is, "From a historical perspective, how would ancient Graeco-Roman
hearers/readers have understood this text?"

In the end, this method asks questions similar to those asked by traditional
redaction criticism (i.e., regarding authorial intent), but with an
important difference. It approaches intentionality from the perspective of
*reception* (reconstructing ancient hearers/readers, reconstructing
interpretive communities.)

Thus "How would the historically reconstructed first-century Corinthian
Christian audience hear/understand this?" rather than "What did Paul *mean*
by . . . ?"

PLStepp





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