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Performing the Gospel

Orality, Memory, and Mark

Performing the Gospel( )
Author: Draper, Jonathan A.
Editor: Foley, John Miles
ISBN:978-0-8006-3828-3
Publication Date:Apr 2006
Publisher:1517 Media
Imprint:Fortress Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.00
Book Description:

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 ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume present new insights into the fluidity of story in a cultural context of oral performance; into the power of cultural memory to transmit...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.38 x 9.38 x 0.85 Inches
Book Weight:1.19 Pounds



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