Werner H. Kelber Libros

This ground-breaking volume gathers the best new work in Gospels criticism centered on how the Gospels actually came to be: through oral tradition, story performance, and cultural memory. Contributors include: John Miles Foley Martin Jaffee Jonathan A.Draper Ellen Aitken Holly Hearon Vernon K. Robbins Whitney Shiner Jan Assmann Jens Schroeter Richard A. Horsley.

Sixteen essays refocus New Testament studies from the predominantly literary and source-critical model toward an oral, scribal, memorial, performative model, placing the New Testament into the context of ancient communications media and exposing the print mentality dominating professional study of the ancient texts.