Biblical storytelling

Biblical storytelling is a discipline in which the storyteller takes a passage from the Bible, studies and reflects on that passage, and then tells it in a way so that the hearers may best connect with the story as well.

Biblical storytellers place themselves in line with the oral tradition of the Biblical time-period, understanding that the normal mode of engaging with the Bible during this time was through the public reading of scripture[1] or in the retelling of stories.

[2] Modern Biblical storytelling as a discipline may be traced to Tom Boomershine, a longtime professor at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio who experimented with the idea of memorising stories in the Bible and performing them during his years in seminary.

[4][5] The term memorization is rarely used when describing storytelling because it usually is taken to mean rote learning.

Instead of solely taking on one character, the storyteller describes the entire scene in the imagination of the audience.