Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark

by Richard A. Horsley

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451411669
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	05/28/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jonathan A. Draper is Professor of New Testament at the School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

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).

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart 1

The Implications of Orality for Studies of the Biblical Text

Gender and Otherness in Rabbinic Oral Culture: On Gentiles, Undisciplined Jews, and Their Women

Many Voices, One Script: The Prophecies of George Khambule

Part 2

Form as a Mnemonic Device: Cultural Texts and Cultural Memory

Memory in Oral Tradition

Tradition in the Mouth of the Hero: Jesus as an Interpreter of Scripture

Jesus and the Canon: The Early Jesus Traditions in the Context of the Origins of the New Testament Canon

Part 3

Interfaces of Orality and Literature in the Gospel of Mark

Memory Technology and the Composition of Mark

A Prophet Like Moses and Elijah: Popular Memory and Cultural Patterns in MarkAbbreviations

Notes

Contributors