Performing the Gospel : orality, memory, and Mark / edited by Richard A. Horsley, Jonathan A. Draper, and John Miles Foley ; essays dedicated to Werner Kelber.

Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis, MN : Fortress, ©2006.
Descriptionxvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Bible. Mark--Language, style.

Other author/creatorHorsley, Richard A.
Other author/creatorDraper, Jonathan A.
Other author/creatorFoley, John Miles.
Other author/creatorKelber, Werner H.
Contents The implications of orality for studies of the biblical text / Holly E. Hearon -- Gender and otherness in rabbinic oral culture: on Gentiles, undisciplined Jews, and their women / Martin S. Jaffee -- Many voices, one script: the prophecies of George Khambule / Jonathan A. Draper -- Form as a mnemonic device: cultural texts and cultural memory / Jan Assmann -- Memory in oral tradition / John Miles Foley -- Tradition in the mouth of the hero: Jesus as an interpreter of Scripture / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken -- Jesus and the canon : the early Jesus traditions in the context of the origins of the New Testament canon / Jens Schröter -- Interfaces of orality and literacy in the Gospel of Mark / Vernon K. Robbins -- Memory, technology, and the composition of Mark / Whitney Shiner -- A prophet like Moses and Elijah: popular memory and cultural patterns in Mark / Richard A. Horsley.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-236).
LCCN 2005037888
ISBN080063828X (alk. paper)
ISBN9780800638283