Structuring Early Christian Memory: Jesus in Tradition, Performance, and Text
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present because it is a relationship which finds expression in memorial acts such as storytelling and text-production. This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which “past” and “present” are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant complication directly affects the procedures and products of “historical Jesus” research, which depends particularly on the assumption that we can cleanly separate “authentic” from “inauthentic” traditions. In Structuring Early Christian Memory Rafael Rodriguez analyzes the problems that arise from this assumption and proposes a “historical Jesus” program that is more sensitive to the entanglement of past and present.
- Title: Structuring Early Christian Memory: Jesus in Tradition, Performance, and Text
- Author: Rafael Rodríguez
- Series: Library of New Testament Studies
- Volume: 407
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jesus Christ › Historicity; Jesus Christ › Biography--Sources--Evaluation; Bible. N.T. › History of Biblical events; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9780567264206, 0567264203
- Resource ID: LLS:STRCTRNGRLYMMRY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:12:24Z
Rafael Rodriguez is professor of New Testament at Johnson University (Knoxville, Tennessee). He is the author If You Call Yourself a Jew: Reappraising Paul's Letter to the Romans (2014), and co-editor of The So-Called Jew in Paul's Letter to the Romans (with Matthew Thiessen; 2016).