Memory, tradition, and text

Memory, tradition, and text uses of the past in early Christianity / [electronic resource] : edited by Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher. - Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, c2005. - ix, 282 p. ; 23 cm. - Society of Biblical Literature Semeia studies ; no. 52 . - Semeia studies ; no. 52. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279).

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.


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2006.
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Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity--Origin.
Memory.


Electronic books.

BR162.3 / .M46 2005beb

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