Memory Theory in New Testament Studies

Exploring New Perspectives
2023
ISBN: 978-3-506-79081-1
Verlag: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh

Buch, Englisch, 315 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in cultural contexts of the Bible

This book collects ten of Sandra Huebenthal’s most important contributions to the application of Social Memory Theory in Biblical studies.

The volume consists of four parts, each devoted to a particular field of research. Part one addresses the general impact of Social Memory Theory for the New Testament. The second part analyzes how Social Memory Theory adds to exploring the phenomenon of (biblical) intertextuality as a strategy for negotiating Early Christian identity and the third part investigates how New Testament pseudepigraphy provides a different approach for understanding the negotiation and formation of Christian identities. Finally, part four provides an outlook how the hermeneutical approach can enhance Patristic research. The ten essays originate from discussions about Social Memory Theory and the New Testament at international conferences, three of them are translations of German contributions, while two are published for the first time in this volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huebenthal, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Huebenthal is Professor for Exegesis and Biblical Theology at Universität Passau. She has been working in the area of Social Memory Theory and Biblical Text for the last fifteen years and developed a hermeneutical model for reading and investigating Biblical texts as artifacts of social memory and the New Testament as an Early Christian family album.