Before the written Gospel there was—what? Previous thinking regarding “oral tradition” imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would constitute what we know as the end result, the written Gospels. That picture—and the implicit understanding of the Gospel writers as “editors”—has changed. The groundbreaking work gathered in this volume presents new insights into the fluidity of story in a cultural context of oral performance; into the power of cultural memory to transmit and shape community; and into the dramatically new picture of Mark’s Gospel that emerges from the results.
This book is organized around the three central foci in this discipline—narrative, orality and literacy, and memory.
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