Performing the Gospel : Orality, Memory, and Mark

Draper, Jonathan A.

ISBN 10: 080063828X / ISBN 13: 9780800638283

Published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performing the Gospel : Orality, Memory, and Mark
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080063828X
• ISBN 13: 9780800638283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.193 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

This ground-breaking volume gathers the best new work in Gospels criticism centered on how the Gospels actually came to be: through oral tradition, story performance, and cultural memory.

Contributors include:

John Miles Foley Martin Jaffee Jonathan A.Draper Ellen Aitken Holly Hearon Vernon K. Robbins Whitney Shiner Jan Assmann Jens Schroeter Richard A. Horsley.

About the Author

Jonathan A. Draper is a leading South African New Testament Scholar who teaches at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

John Miles Foley holds the Wm. H. Byler Chair in the Humanities and directs the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri.

Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Message and the Kingdom (2002 with Neil Asher Siberman), Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (1992), and Jesus and the Empire (2002).