Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory And Mark: Essays Dedicated To Werner Kelber

By Richard A. Horsley and John Miles Foley

Book Overview

Previous thinking regarding "oral tradition" imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would constitute what we know as the end result, the written Gospels. That picture-and the implicit understanding of the Gospel writers as "editors"-has changed. The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume present new insights into the fluidity of story in a cultural context of oral performance; into the power of cultural memory to transmit and shape community; and into the dramatically new picture of Mark's Gospel that emerges from the results. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080063828X
• ISBN13: 9780800638283
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Fortress Pr
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"