Performing the Gospel : orality, memory, and Mark / edited by Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper, and John Miles Foley ; essays dedicated to Werner Kelber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horsley, Richard A.

Draper, Jonathan A.

Foley, John Miles

Kelber, Werner H.

Class of 1939 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Mark--Language, style.

Bible.

Bible. Mark.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress, [2006]

Summary:

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.

That picture-and the implicit understanding of the Gospel writers as "editors"-has changed. The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume present new insights into the fluidity of story in a cultural context of oral performance; into the power of cultural memory to transmit and shape community; and into the dramatically new picture of Mark's Gospel that emerges from the results.

Contents:

The implications of orality for studies of the biblical text / Holly E. Hearon

Gender and otherness in rabbinic oral culture: on Gentiles, undisciplined Jews, and their women / Martin S. Jaffee

Many voices, one script: the prophecies of George Khambule / Jonathan A. Draper

Form as a mnemonic device: cultural texts and cultural memory / Jan Assmann

Memory in oral tradition / John Miles Foley

Tradition in the mouth of the hero: Jesus as an interpreter of Scripture / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken

Jesus and the canon : the early Jesus traditions in the context of the origins of the New Testament canon / Jens Schröter

Interfaces of orality and literacy in the Gospel of Mark / Vernon K. Robbins

Memory, technology, and the composition of Mark / Whitney Shiner

A prophet like Moses and Elijah: popular memory and cultural patterns in Mark / Richard A. Horsley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-236).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

ISBN:

080063828X

OCLC:

62782205

Publisher Number:

9780800638283