The Gospel as manuscript : an early history of the Jesus tradition as material artifact / Chris Keith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keith, Chris, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transmission of texts.

Bible. Gospels--Criticism, Textual.

Bible.

Bible. Gospels--Manuscripts.

Jesus Christ--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This book offers a new material history of the Jesus tradition. It shows that the introduction of manuscripts to the transmission of the Jesus tradition played an underappreciated but crucial role in the reception history of the tradition that eventuated. It focuses particularly on the competitive textualization of the Jesus tradition, whereby Gospel authors drew attention to the written nature of their tradition, sometimes in attempts to assert superiority to predecessors, and the public reading of the Jesus tradition. Both these processes reveal efforts on the part of early followers of Jesus to place the gospel-as-manuscript on display, whether in the literary tradition or in the assembly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-938439-8

0-19-009724-8