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Memory, tradition, and text : uses of the past in early Christianity / edited by Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Kirk, Alan (Alan K.)
Thatcher, Tom, 1967-
Series:
Semeia studies (Brill Academic Publishers) ; no. 52.
Semeia studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history.
Church history--Primitive and early church.
Christianity--Origin.
Memory.
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.
Physical Description:
ix, 282 pages ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Summary:
Social and cultural memory theory examines the ways communities and individuals reconstruct and commemorate their pasts in light of shared experiences and current social realities. Drawing on the methods of this emerging field, this volume both introduces memory theory to biblical scholars and restores the category "memory" to a preeminent position in research on Christian origins.
Contents:
Social and cultural memory / Alan Kirk
Jesus tradition as social memory / Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher
Christian origins: historical truth and social memory / Barry Schwartz
Prominent patterns in the social memory of Jesus and friends / Richard A. Horsley
Why John wrote a gospel: memory and history in an early Christian community / Tom Thatcher
The story of "the woman who anointed Jesus" as social memory: a methodological proposal for the study of tradition as memory / Holly Hearon
The locus for death: social memory and the passion narratives / Arthur J. Dewey
Christian collective memory and Paul's knowledge of Jesus / Georgia Masters Keightley
Collective memory and Hebrews 11: outlining a new investigative framework
Philip F. Esler
Early Jewish birth prophecy stories and women's social memory / Antoinette Clark Wire
The memory of violence and the death of Jesus in Q / Alan Kirk
Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a repository of early Christian communal memory / April D. DeConick
The works of memory: Christian origins as mnemohistory-a response / Werner H. Kelber
Jesus in first-century memory-a response / Barry Schwartz.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279).
ISBN:
9004137602
OCLC:
59879450
Publisher Number:
9789004137608

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