Structuring Early Christian Memory: Jesus in Tradition, Performance and Text (The Library of New Testament Studies) - Softcover

Rodriguez, Rafael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567663086 ISBN 13: 9780567663085

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2015

Synopsis

Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present because it is a relationship which finds expression in memorial acts such as storytelling and text-production.

This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which "past" and "present" are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant complication directly affects the procedures and products of "historical Jesus" research, which depends particularly on the assumption that we can cleanly separate "authentic" from "inauthentic" traditions.

In Structuring Early Christian Memory Rafael Rodriguez analyzes the problems that arise from this assumption and proposes a "historical Jesus" program that is more sensitive to the entanglement of past and present.

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About the Authors

Rafael Rodríguez is Professor of New Testament at Johnson University, USA.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567663086
• ISBN 13: 9780567663085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304