Werner H. Kelber is Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor Emeritus in Biblical Studies, Rice University. His other works include The Oral and the Written Gospel: The Hermeneutics of Speaking and Writing in the Synoptic Tradition; Mark, Paul, and Q; Mark's Story of Jesus; and The Kingdom in Mark: A New Place and a New Time. He lives in Bellville, Texas.Samuel Byrskog is Professor of New Testament, University of Lund. He is the author or editor of several books, including Story as History - History as Story: The Gospel Tradition in the Context of Ancient Oral History; and Jesus the Only Teacher: Didactic Authority and Transmission in Ancient Israel, Ancient Judaism, and the Matthean Community. He lives in Lund, Sweden.
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Introduction Samuel Byrskog ?a 1. Form Criticism Christopher Tuckett 2. The Jesus Tradition as Oral Tradition Terence C. Mournet 3. Jesus Tradition and the Pauline Letters David E. Aune 4. Honi the Circler in Manuscript and Memory: An Experiment in ""Re-Oralizing"" the Talmudic Text Martin S. Jaffee 5. Memory and Tradition in the Hellenistic Schools Loveday Alexander 6. Memory Alan Kirk ?a Conclusion: The Work of Birger Gerhardsson in Perspective Werner H. Kelber Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors
This volume is ideal for scholars desiring an entree into Gerhardsson's work or issues of orality, textuality, and memory, as well as scholars who are well versed in these areas. It appropriately offers tribute to Gerhardsson in a manner that makes clear the past, present, and future of an exciting area of NT scholarship he helped create. -- Restoration Quarterly ...these essays will invite further reflection about the impact of oral-memory models on contemporary discussions of biblical historicity and authority. -- Ritva H. Williams -- Biblical Theology Bulletin Anyone interested in the work of Gerhardsson, scribal practice, oral tradition, or the gospels in general ought to add this work to their library. -- John Walker -- Freedom in Orthodoxy