Memory, tradition, and text
Subtitle: uses of the past in early Christianity
By: edited by Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher.
Contributors: Kirk, Alan; Thatcher, Tom, 1967-
Series: Society of Biblical Literature Semeia studies ;; no. 52; Semeia studies ;; no. 52.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781589831490
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.; Christianity -- Origin.; Memory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279).
Table of contents: title: Social and cultural memory / Alan Kirk; title: Jesus tradition as social memory / Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher; title: Christian origins : historical truth and social memory / Barry Schwartz; title: Prominent patterns in the social memory of Jesus and friends / Richard A. Horsley; title: Why John wrote a gospel : memory and history in an early Christian community / Tom Thatcher; title: The story of "the woman who anointed Jesus" as social memory : a methodological proposal for the study of tradition as memory / Holly Hearon; title: The locus for death : social memory and the Passion Narratives / Arthur J. Dewey; title: Christian collective memory and Paul's knowledge of Jesus / Georgia Masters Keightley; title: Collective memory and Hebrews 11 : outlining a new investigative framework / Philip F. Esler; title: Early Jewish birth prophecy stories and women's social memory / Antoinette Clark Wire; title: The memory of violence and the death of Jesus in Q / Alan Kirk; title: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a repository of early Christian communal memory / April D. DeConick; title: The works of memory : Christian origins as mnemohistory; title: a response / Werner H. Kelber; title: Jesus in first-century memory; title: a response / Barry Schwartz.