The Oral and the Written Gospel

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ISBN: 9780253210975 | 0253210976
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Copyright: 12/1/1997

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This volume is a tightly argued and comprehensive treatment of an important area of New Testament studies. By distinguishing oral from written modes of transmission, Kelber skillfully unlocks new doors for biblical interpretation.

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Abbreviations
Foreword
Preface
New Introduction
The Pre-Canonical Synoptic Transmission	p. 1
Rudolf Bultmann's Model of Evolutionary Progression	p. 2
Birger Gerhardsson's Model of Passive Transmission	p. 8
Oral Transmission as Process of Social Identification and Preventive Censorship	p. 14
The Dominant Paradigm of Linearity	p. 32
Mark's Oral Legacy	p. 44
Oral Voices and Values	p. 45
Oral Syntax and Story	p. 64
Orality and Actuality, Mythology and Mythoclasm	p. 70
Oral Pluralism Versus Oral Gospel	p. 77
Mark as Textuality	p. 90
Textuality as Disorientation	p. 91
Textuality as Reorientation	p. 105
The Gospel as Written Parable	p. 117
Textuality as Agent of Alienation and Liberation	p. 129
Orality and Textuality in Paul	p. 140
The Oral Gospel	p. 141
The Written Law	p. 151
The Oral Matrix of the Righteousness of God	p. 165
The Rupture of Oral Synthesis	p. 168
Death and Life in the Word of God	p. 184
Textuality and the Death of the Messiah	p. 185
The Oral Equation of the Earthly Jesus with the Living Lord	p. 199
The Written Gospel as Counterform to Oral Speech	p. 207
Parabolic Gospel - Oral Tradition - Jesus, the Parabolist	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 227
Index of Passages	p. 248
Index of Authors	p. 252
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