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The Oral and the Written Gospel

Author : Werner H. Kelber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253114063

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The Oral and the Written Gospel by Werner H. Kelber Pdf

"A tightly argued and comprehensive treatment of an important area of New Testament studies." -- The Christian Century "By distinguishing oral from written modes of transmission, Kelber skillfully unlocks new doors for biblical interpretation." -- Theology Today What happens when speech turns into text? Spoken words, operating from mouth to ear, process knowledge differently from writing which links the eye to the visible, but silent letters on the page. Based on this premise, Werner Kelber discusses orality and writing, and the interaction between the two, at strategic points in the early Christian traditions. In digressing from conventional literary criticism, the book offers new, and often startling insights into the origins of Christianity.

The Written Gospel

Author : Markus Bockmuehl,Donald A. Hagner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139445723

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The Written Gospel by Markus Bockmuehl,Donald A. Hagner Pdf

This book comprehensively surveys the origin, production and reception of the canonical gospels in the early church. The discussion unfolds in three steps. Part One traces the origin of the 'gospel' of Jesus, its significance in Jewish and Hellenistic contexts of the first century, and its development from eyewitness memory to oral tradition and written text. Part Two then more specifically examines the composition, design and intentions of each of the four canonical gospels. Widening the focus, Part Three first asks about gospel-writing as viewed from the perspective of ancient Jews and pagans before turning to the question of reception history in the proliferation of 'apocryphal' gospels, in the formation of the canon, and in the beginnings of a gospel commentary tradition.

The Oral Gospel Tradition

Author : James D.G. Dunn
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802867827

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The Oral Gospel Tradition by James D.G. Dunn Pdf

The traditions about Jesus and his teaching circulated in oral form for many years, continuing to do so for decades following the writing of the New Testament Gospels. James Dunn is one of the major voices urging that more consideration needs to be given to the oral use and transmission of the Jesus tradition as a major factor in giving the Synoptic tradition its enduring character.

The Oral Ethos of the Early Church

Author : Joanna Dewey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630870065

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The Oral Ethos of the Early Church by Joanna Dewey Pdf

To experience the gospel message as first-century people heard it is to move into an oral world, one with very little reliance on manuscripts. The essays in this book explore this oral world and the Gospel of Mark within it. They demonstrate the oral style of Mark's gospel, which suggests that it was composed orally, transmitted orally in its entirety by literate and nonliterate storytellers, and survived to become part of the canon only because it was widely known orally. Women's storytelling also thrived during the first centuries of Christianity. With the transition to manuscript authority beginning in the middle of the second century, women's voices were often minimized, trivialized, or completely omitted in written versions. Further, when the Gospel of Mark was one of four written Gospels these voices were quickly ignored. An ancient audience hearing Mark performed, however, enjoyed a vibrant experience of the gospel message and its urgent call to follow.

Behind the Gospels

Author : Eric Eve
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451469400

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Behind the Gospels by Eric Eve Pdf

New Testament scholars often talk about oral tradition as a means by which material about Jesus reached the Gospels writers. Despite the recent interest in oral tradition, scholarly advances have not penetrated the mainstream of academic Gospels scholarship, let alone the wider public. Behind the Gospels fills this gap, offering a general theoretical discussion of oral tradition and the formation of ancient texts and providing a critical survey of the field.

Jesus, the Voice, and the Text

Author : Tom Thatcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131611043

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Jesus, the Voice, and the Text by Tom Thatcher Pdf

Kelber himself is interviewed at the beginning of the book and, in a closing essay, he reflects on the significance of the project and charts a course for the future.

Jesus and the Oral Gospel Tradition

Author : Henry Wansborough
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567040909

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Jesus and the Oral Gospel Tradition by Henry Wansborough Pdf

A collection of papers from two international symposia by such important scholars as Aune, Dunn, Gerhardsson, Meyer, Rordorf and Talmon. The articles share the conviction that the only way to break the deadlock in the Synoptic problem is to examine the oral tradition about Jesus which lay behind the Gospels, and to continue even beyond them. The book addresses such central issues as the characteristics of oral tradition: oral tradition in Judaism, in the teaching of Jesus (his aphorisms and the narrative meshalim) and in the Gospel narratives; and the relationships of John, Paul and the Didache to oral tradition. This volume should bring onto a new plane the discussion of the all-important oral stage of Gospel tradition.

The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark

Author : Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300080123

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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R MacDonald Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognise the Homeric antecedents in Mark's story of Jesus. Mark was composing a prose anti-epic, MacDonald says, presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes. Much like Odysseus, Mark's Jesus sails the seas with uncomprehending companions, encounters preternatural opponents, and suffers many things before confronting rivals who have made his house a den of thieves. In his death and burial, Jesus emulates Hector, although unlike Hector Jesus leaves his tomb empty. Mark's minor characters, too, recall Homeric predecessors: Bartimaeus emulates Tiresias; Joseph of Arimathea, Priam; and the women at the tomb, Helen, Hecuba, and Andromache. And, entire episodes in Mark mirror Homeric episodes, including stilling the sea, walking on water, feeding the multitudes, the Triumphal E

Oral Tradition and the New Testament

Author : Rafael Rodriguez
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567442543

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Oral Tradition and the New Testament by Rafael Rodriguez Pdf

The last three decades have seen an explosion of biblical scholarship on the presence and consequences of the oral expression of tradition among Jesus' followers, especially in the earliest decades of the Common Era. There is a wealth of scholarship focused on 'orality'. This scholarship is, however, abstract and technical almost by definition, and to date no introductory discussion exists that can introduce a new generation of biblical students to the issues being discussed at higher levels of scholarship. Rafael Rodriguez address this gap. Rodriguez adopts a fourfold structure to cover the topic, beginning with basic essentials for further discussion of oral-tradition research and definitions of key terms (the 'what'). He then moves on to discuss the key players in this area (the 'who') before examining the methods involved in oral-tradition research among New Testament scholars (the 'how'). Finally Rodriguez provides examples of the ways in which oral-tradition research can bring texts into clearer focus (the 'why'). The result is a comprehensive introduction to this key area in New Testament studies.

Oral Tradition and the Gospels

Author : Barry Henaut
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850754077

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Oral Tradition and the Gospels by Barry Henaut Pdf

The problem of oral tradition is well known, for without some theory of this medium no history of Jesus would be possible. This study examines Mark 4.1-34 in the light of three distinctive models of orality: Rudolf Bultmann's form-critical method, B. Gerhardsson's 'Memory and Manuscript' theory and the recent contribution of W. Kelber. The form-critically separate units in the test (allegory, parables and aphorisms) are examined on the basis of their attestation in various documents (Mark, Q, Thomas) to determine whether independent versions of these sayings can be identified and what they tell us about the oral phase and Jesus. This analysis suggests that the criteria for authenticity of 'distinctiveness' and 'multiple attestation' need to be re-examined in light of the folkloric understanding of orality.

The Gospel According to Mark

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857860972

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The Gospel According to Mark by Anonim Pdf

The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave

Story as History - History as Story

Author : Samuel Byrskog
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004502055

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Story as History - History as Story by Samuel Byrskog Pdf

Please note that this title is only available to customers in the USA, Canada, and Mexico. NO salesrights for Rest of World. Samuel Byrskog employs models from the interdisciplinary field of oral history as presented by Paul Thompson, coupled with insights from cultural anthropology, in order to examine the interaction between the present and the past as the gospel tradition evolved. The ancient Greek and Roman historians, with their use of eyewitness testimony as sources to the past and as central elements in interpretive and narrativizing processes of the present, serve as the basis for unraveling culture-specific patterns of oral history, and thus for conceptualizing similar aspects during the development of the gospel tradition. Eyewitness testimonies played a central but varying role in early Christianity. They were transmitted in the matrix of discipleship, where verbal and behavioral traditions were passed on through acts of mimesis. The folkloristic notion of re-oralization explains how oral accounts regularly interacted with written texts, indicating a vivid and engaged relationship to the past as well as the semantic significance of oral communication and performance. Factual truth was essential but inseparable from interpreted truth during the course of investigation, transmission, and composition. The gospel tradition developed through a subtle interaction between the unique historic events of the past and the various circumstances of the present. The narrative and historical dimensions of a text cannot be separated, because the semantic codes of a text are often located in the culture and not in the text itself. The gospels are therefore the synthesis of history and story, intertwining the horizons of the past and of the present in their own right.

Memory and Manuscript

Author : Birger Gerhardsson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0802843662

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Memory and Manuscript by Birger Gerhardsson Pdf

Here in one volume are two of Birger Gerhardsson's much-debated works on the transmission of tradition in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. In Memory and Manuscript (1961), Gerhardsson explores the way in which Jewish rabbis during the first Christian centuries preserved and passed on their sacred tradition, and he shows how early Christianity is better understood in light of how that tradition developed in Rabbinic Judaism. In Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity (1964), Gerhardsson further clarifies the discussion and answers criticism of his earlier book. This Biblical Resource Series combined edition corrects and expands Gerhardsson's original works and includes a new preface by the author and a lengthy new foreword by Jacob Neusner that summarizes these works' importance and subsequent influence.

Performing the Gospel

Author : Richard A. Horsley,Jonathan A. Draper,John Miles Foley,Werner H. Kelber
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451411669

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Performing the Gospel by Richard A. Horsley,Jonathan A. Draper,John Miles Foley,Werner H. Kelber Pdf

Previous thinking regarding "oral tradition" imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would constitute what we know as the end result, the written Gospels.

From Jesus to Christ

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300164107

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From Jesus to Christ by Paula Fredriksen Pdf

"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor