Structuring Early Christian Memory

Jesus in Tradition, Performance and Text
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-567-26420-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, Band 407, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

Reihe: The Library of New Testament Studies

Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present because it is a relationship which finds expression in memorial acts such as storytelling and text-production.

This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which “past” and “present” are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant complication directly affects the procedures and products of “historical Jesus” research, which depends particularly on the assumption that we can cleanly separate “authentic” from “inauthentic” traditions.

In Structuring Early Christian Memory Rafael Rodriguez analyzes the problems that arise from this assumption and proposes a “historical Jesus” program that is more sensitive to the entanglement of past and present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodriguez, Rafael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Historisch-Kritische Jesusforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Hagiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction

1. Jesus Tradition in Memory and Performance
2. Contemporary ‘Historical Jesus’ and Gospels Research

Part II: A Framework for Apprehending Ancient Christian Traditions

3. Memory, Reputation, History
4. Performance, Structure, Meaning, Text

Part III: Jesus’ Healings and Exorcisms in the Sayings Traditions

5. ‘What You Hear and See’: Echoes of Restoration in Jesus’ Healings
6. ‘Today this Scripture’: Reading and Referencing Israelite Tradition
7. ‘No City or House Divided against Itself’: Exorcism as Israelite Tradition

Part IV: Conclusion

8. Remembering Jesus Speaking

Über Autor(innen)

Rafael Rodriguez, Rafael Rodríguez, assistant professor of New Testament (Johnson Bible College; Knoxville, TN), received his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 2008 and is currently researching Christian origins and the so-called 'parting of the ways.'