Werner Kelber’s The Oral and the Written Gospel (1983) introduced biblical scholars to interdisciplinary trends in the study of ancient media culture. The book is now widely recognized as a milestone and it has spurred wide-ranging scholarship. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, new developments in orality theory, literacy theory, and social approaches to memory call for a programmatic reappraisal of past research and future directions. This volume address these concerns. Kelber himself is interviewed at the beginning of the book and, in a closing essay, he reflects on the significance of the project and charts a course for the future.
Table of Content
Beyond Texts and Traditions: Werner Kelber’s Media History of Christian Origins – Tom Thatcher
‘It’s Not Easy to Take a Fresh Approach’: Reflections on The Oral and Written Gospel (An Interview with Werner Kelber) – Werner Kelber and Tom Thatcher
Oral Performance and Mark: Some Implications of The Oral and the Written Gospel, Twenty-Five Years Later- Richard A. Horsley
The Gospel of Mark as Oral Hermeneutic – Joanna Dewey
Storytelling in Oral and Written Media Contexts of the Ancient Mediterranean World – Holly E. Hearon
Vice Catalogues as Oral-Mnemonic Cues: A Comparative Study of the Two Ways Tradition in the Didache and Parallels from the Perspective of Oral Tradition –
Jonathan Draper
Human Memory and the Sayings of Jesus: Contemporary Experimental Exercises in the Transmission of Jesus Traditions – April D. De Conick
The Gospel of Trajan – Arthur J. Dewey
The Scar of the Cross: The Violence Ratio and the Earliest Christian Memories of Jesus – Chris Keith and Tom Thatcher
Manuscript Tradition as a Tertium Quid: Orality and Memory in Scribal Practices – Alan Kirk
The Oral-Scribal-Memorial Arts of Communication in Early Christianity – Werner H. Kelber
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About the author
Tom Thatcher is Professor of Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University.
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