The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)
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Overview
Generically, theologically, and concerning content, Mark and Joseph and Aseneth are quite different. The former is a product of the nascent Jesus movement and influenced by the Greco-Roman Bioi (“Lives”). It details the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of a wandering Galilean. The latter is a Hellenistic Jewish narrative influenced by Greek romances and Jewish novellas. It expands the laconic account of Joseph’s marriage to Aseneth in Genesis 41 into a full-fledged love and adventure story.
Despite these differences, Elder finds remarkable similarities that the texts share. Elder uses both texts to examine media and modes of composition in antiquity, arguing that they were both composed via dictation from their antecedent oral traditions. Elder’s volume offers a fresh approach to the composition of both Joseph and Aseneth and Mark as well as to many of their respective interpretive debates.
- Presents Mark and Joseph and Aseneth as two nearly contemporaneous narratives that were oral traditions committed to the written medium via dictation
- Explores the ways in which the Gospel of Mark and Joseph and Aseneth exhibit remarkable similarities with respect to length, language, structure and how they evoke intertexts and how they were textually reappropriated by later tradents
- Contends that Mark displays a style and syntax characteristic of oral storytelling
- Mark and Aseneth
- Media Theory, Ancient Media, and Orally Composed Narratives from the Papyri
- Linguistic Oral Residues
- Metalinguistic Oral Residues
- Linguistic Trajectories of Joseph and Aseneth and Mark
- Conclusion
- Title: The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative
- Author: Nicholas Elder
- Series: Library of New Testament Studies
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9780567701541, 0567701549
- Resource ID: LLS:MDMTRXCHRSNRRTV
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-02T22:12:25Z