Jesus, The Voice, and The Text

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.

Beyond texts and traditions : Werner Kelber's media history of Christian origins	p. 1
"It's not easy to take a fresh approach" : reflections on The oral and the written Gospel (an interview with Werner Kelber)	p. 27
Oral performance and Mark : some implications of The oral and the written Gospel, twenty-five years later	p. 45
The Gospel of Mark as oral hermeneutic	p. 71
Storytelling in oral and written media contexts of the ancient Mediterranean world	p. 89
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	p. 111
Human memory and the sayings of Jesus : contemporary experimental exercises in the transmission of Jesus traditions	p. 135
The Gospel of Trajan	p. 181
The scar of the cross : the violence ratio and the earliest Christian memories of Jesus	p. 197
Manuscript tradition as a tertium quid : orality and memory in scribal practices	p. 215
The oral-scribal-memorial arts of communication in early Christianity	p. 235
Notes	p. 263
Works cited	p. 273
Contributors	p. 295
Index of Biblical books and other ancient works	p. 299
Index of authors	p. 302
Index of subjects	p. 306
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