Imprints, voiceprints, and footprints of memory
Subtitle: collected essays of Werner H. Kelber
By: by Werner H. Kelber
Series: Resources for biblical study -- number 74; Resources for biblical study -- no. 74.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9781589838925; 9781589838932; 9781589838949
Subjects: Mündliche Überlieferung; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Neues Testament; Bible; Mündliche Kommunikation
Description: Sixteen essays refocus New Testament studies from the predominantly literary and source-critical model toward an oral, scribal, memorial, performative model, placing the New Testament into the context of ancient communications media and exposing the print mentality dominating professional study of the ancient texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-491) and indexes.

Contains 15 essays in English and 1 in German.
Table of contents: title: Apostolic tradition and the form of the Gospel (1985) --; title: Interpretation of narrative and narrative as interpretation : hermeneutical reflections on the Gospels (1987) --; title: Narrative and disclosure : mechanisms of concealing, revealing, and reveiling (1988) --; title: In the beginning were the words : the apotheosis and narrative displacement of the logos (1990) --; title: Jesus and tradition : words in time, words in space (1994) --; title: Language, memory, and sense perception in the religious and technological culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages (1995) --; title: The oral and the written Gospel : fourteen years afterward (1997) --; title: Memory's desire of the ordeal of remembering : Judaism and Christianity (2000-2001) --; title: Geschichte als Kommunikationsgeschichte : Überlegungen zur Medienwissenschaft (2004) --; title: On the history of the quest, or : the reduction of polyvalency to single sense (2004) --; title: The works of memory : Christian origins as mnemohistory (2005) --; title: Orality and biblical scholarship : seven case studies (2007) --; title: Memory and violence, or : genealogies of remembering (in memory of Edith Wyschogrod) (2009) --; title: The work of Birger Gerhardsson in perspective (2009) --; title: The history of the closure of biblical texts (2010) --; title: The work of Walter J. Ong and biblical scholarship (2011).