Imprints, voiceprints, and footprints of memory : collected essays of Werner H. Kelber / by Werner H. Kelber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelber, Werner H.

Series:

Resources for Biblical Study

Resources for biblical study ; no. 74

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (531 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jesus and his followers defined their allegiances and expressed their identities in a communications culture that manifested itself in voice and chirographic practices, in oral-scribal interfaces, and in performative activities rooted in memory. In the sixteen essays gathered in Imprints, Voiceprints, and Footprints of Memory, Werner Kelber explores the verbal arts of early Christian word processing operative in a media world that was separated by two millennia from our contemporary media history. The title articulates the fact that the ancient culture of voiced texts, hand-copying, and remembering is chiefly accessible to us in print format and predominantly assimilated from print perspectives. The oral-scribal-memorial-performative paradigm developed in these essays challenges the reigning historical-critical model in biblical scholarship. Notions of tradition, the fixation on the single original saying, the dominant methodology of form criticism, and the heroic labors of the Quest--stalwart features of the historical, documentary paradigm--are all subject to a critical review. A number of essays reach beyond New Testament texts, ranging from the pre-Socratic Gorgias through medieval manuscript culture on to print's triumphant apotheosis in Gutenberg's Vulgate, product of the high tech of the fifteenth century, all the way to conflicting commemorations of Auschwitz--taking tentative steps toward a history of media technologies, culture, and cognition of the Christian tradition in the West.

Contents:

Apostolic tradition and the form of the Gospel (1985)

Interpretation of narrative and narrative as interpretation : hermeneutical reflections on the Gospels (1987)

Narrative and disclosure : mechanisms of concealing, revealing, and reveiling (1988)

In the beginning were the words : the apotheosis and narrative displacement of the logos (1990)

Jesus and tradition : words in time, words in space (1994)

Language, memory, and sense perception in the religious and technological culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages (1995)

The oral and the written Gospel : fourteen years afterward (1997)

Memory's desire of the ordeal of remembering : Judaism and Christianity (2000-2001)

Geschichte als Kommunikationsgeschichte : Überlegungen zur Medienwissenschaft (2004)

On the history of the quest, or : the reduction of polyvalency to single sense (2004)

The works of memory : Christian origins as mnemohistory (2005)

Orality and biblical scholarship : seven case studies (2007)

Memory and violence, or : genealogies of remembering (in memory of Edith Wyschogrod) (2009)

The work of Birger Gerhardsson in perspective (2009)

The history of the closure of biblical texts (2010)

The work of Walter J. Ong and biblical scholarship (2011).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies (pages 465-491) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-58983-893-9

OCLC:

868915879