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Memory, tradition, and text : uses of the past in early Christianity / edited by Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher.

Contributor(s): Kirk, Alan (Alan K.) | Thatcher, Tom, 1967-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia studies (Brill Academic Publishers): no. 52.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2005Description: ix, 282 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004137602; 9789004137608Subject(s): Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Christianity -- Origin | Memory | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 270.1 LOC classification: BR162.3 | .M46 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279).
Contents:
Social and cultural memory / Alan Kirk -- Jesus tradition as social memory / Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher -- Christian origins : historical truth and social memory / Barry Schwartz -- Prominent patterns in the social memory of Jesus and friends / Richard A. Horsley -- Why John wrote a gospel: memory and history in an early Christian community / Tom Thatcher -- The story of "the woman who anointed Jesus" as social memory : a methodological proposal for the study of tradition as memory / Holly Hearon -- The locus for death : social memory and the passion narratives / Arthur J. Dewey -- Christian collective memory and Paul's knowledge of Jesus / Georgia Masters Keightley -- Collective memory and Hebrews 11 : outlining a new investigative framework -- Philip F. Esler -- Early Jewish birth prophecy stories and women's social memory / Antoinette Clark Wire -- The memory of violence and the death of Jesus in Q / Alan Kirk -- Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a repository of early Christian communal memory / April D. Deconick -- The works of memory : Christian origins as mnemohistory -- a response / Werner H. Kelber -- Jesus in first-century memory -- a response / Barry Schwartz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279).

Social and cultural memory / Alan Kirk -- Jesus tradition as social memory / Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher -- Christian origins : historical truth and social memory / Barry Schwartz -- Prominent patterns in the social memory of Jesus and friends / Richard A. Horsley -- Why John wrote a gospel: memory and history in an early Christian community / Tom Thatcher -- The story of "the woman who anointed Jesus" as social memory : a methodological proposal for the study of tradition as memory / Holly Hearon -- The locus for death : social memory and the passion narratives / Arthur J. Dewey -- Christian collective memory and Paul's knowledge of Jesus / Georgia Masters Keightley -- Collective memory and Hebrews 11 : outlining a new investigative framework -- Philip F. Esler -- Early Jewish birth prophecy stories and women's social memory / Antoinette Clark Wire -- The memory of violence and the death of Jesus in Q / Alan Kirk -- Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a repository of early Christian communal memory / April D. Deconick -- The works of memory : Christian origins as mnemohistory -- a response / Werner H. Kelber -- Jesus in first-century memory -- a response / Barry Schwartz.

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