Memory, Tradition, And Text: Uses of the Past in Early ChristianityAlan K. Kirk, Tom Thatcher BRILL, 2005 - 282 pages 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. In the process, the volume challenges current approaches to research problems in Christian origins, such as the history of the Gospel traditions, the birth of early Christian literature, ritual and ethics, and the historical Jesus. The essays, taken in aggregate, outline a comprehensive research agenda for examining the beginnings of Christianity and its literature and also propose a fundamentally revised model for the phenomenology of early Christian oral tradition, assess the impact of memory theory upon historical Jesus research, establish connections between memory dynamics and the appearance of written Gospels, and assess the relationship of early Christian commemorative activities with the cultural memory of ancient Judaism. Contributors include April D. DeConick, Arthur J. Dewey, Philip F. Esler, Holly Hearon, Richard Horsley, Georgia Masters Keightley, Werner Kelber, Alan Kirk, Barry Schwartz, Tom Thatcher, and Antoinette Clark Wire. "Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)." |
Table des matières
Jesus Tradition as Social Memory | 22 |
Early Jewish Birth Prophecy Stories and Womens Social Memory | 23 |
Historical Truth and Social Memory | 43 |
Prominent Patterns in the Social Memory of Jesus and Friends | 57 |
Memory and History in an Early | 79 |
Social Memory and the Passion Narratives | 119 |
Christian Collective Memory and Pauls Knowledge of Jesus | 129 |
Outlining a New Investigative | 151 |
The Memory of Violence and the Death of Jesus in | 191 |
Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a Repository of Early Christian | 207 |
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