Alan Kirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Kirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirk |
| SIGNATURE | KIRK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-8307-6635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Oral Tradition, Writing, and the Synoptic Problem
Assumptions about orality and writing that Synoptic Problem critics bring to their analysis profoundly affect their proposed solutions. The default premise has been a pronounced media dualism: conceiving orality and writing as mutually exclusive modes of transmission. This is evident right from the beginning in the source theories advanced by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Johann Carl Ludwig Gieseler…
The ‘Galilean Q Community’ and the Orientalist Legacy in 2DH Scholarship
Contemporary Q scholarship imagines the existence of a ‘Galilean Q Community’ furnished with a simple religious piety standing over against Judean/Jerusalem-centered Judaism with its narrow ethnic particularism, its cult ritualism, and its scribal legalism. The ‘Galilean Q community’ plays the same role vis-à-vis Judean Judaism in the imaginary of contemporary Q scholarship that Sufi Islam does in past and present western Orientalist discourses o…
Gedächtnistheorie und Neues Testament
Ehrman, Bauckham and Bird on Memory and the Jesus Tradition
The past twenty years have seen numerous studies applying memory research to problems in the history of the Jesus tradition and also in historical Jesus research, where it has become a point of controversy. Three recent book-length contributions to these debates are Bart Ehrman’s Jesus Before The Gospels (2016), the just-released second edition of Richard Bauckham’s 2006 volume, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (2017), and Michael Bird’s The Gospel of …
The Synoptic Problem, Ancient Media, and the Historical Jesus
Cognition, Commemoration, and Tradition
Wirkungsgeschichtlich orientierte Forschung zum historischen Jesus benötigt eine angemessene Erklärung von Ursprung und Eigenheit der Jesusüberlieferung. Sie muss die Frage beantworten, auf welche Weise Tradition Vergangenheit vermittelt. Nach einer Kritik der sogenannten memory-distortion-Forschung untersucht der Aufsatz die Ursprünge der Jesustradition an der Schnittstelle zwischen Kognition und kulturellen Medien. Es wird gezeigt, dass Traditi…
Orality, Writing, and Phantom Sources
In different ways and with quite different outcomes Dunn, Mournet, Baum, and Burkett invoke practices associated with orality and writing in the ancient world to call into question all or some aspects of the Two Document Hypothesis and to build rationales for alternative source hypotheses. In a criticism of their appeals to ancient media this essay works out the significance of cultural practices associated with orality, writing, and memory for f…
A recent look at the factors influencing workforce retention in public child welfare
Crossing the Boundary
Leo Perdue has applied Victor Turner's anthropological model of separation, liminality, and reaggregation to elucidate the social function of ancient wisdom texts. Ancient wisdom texts project the rhetorical situation of liminality upon their recipients in the course of imparting instruction, the effect of which is to integrate recipients at a new level into social structure. Using Turner's model, correlated with Berger's and Luckmann's model of …
The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture
The composed life of the Syriac Menander
Two issues recur in Syriac Menander's rather meagre history of scholarship: the question of its composition and the question of its provenance. With regard to the first, Syriac Menander has been seen as a loose collection of gnomic sayings; with regard to the second, doubts have been raised about whether it is actually a Jewish Wisdom text because of the universality of its wisdom and the muted expression it gives to unequivocally Jewish ethics. …
Examining Priorities
Ever since a fragment of the Gospel of Peter was discovered at Akhmîm in 1886–7, and published in 1892, scholarship has been divided over its relationship to the New Testament gospels. In 1892 J. Armitage Robinson argued that the gospel was a tendentious appropriation of canonical material which contained no traces of a primitive Urevangelium . In 1893 Adolf von Harnack argued tentatively for its independence from the canonical gospels, while The…
Examining Priorities
Ever since a fragment of the Gospel of Peter was discovered at Akhmîm in 1886–7, and published in 1892, scholarship has been divided over its relationship to the New Testament gospels. In 1892 J. Armitage Robinson argued that the gospel was a tendentious appropriation of canonical material which contained no traces of a primitive Urevangelium . In 1893 Adolf von Harnack argued tentatively for its independence from the canonical gospels, while The…
The composed life of the Syriac Menander
Two issues recur in Syriac Menander's rather meagre history of scholarship: the question of its composition and the question of its provenance. With regard to the first, Syriac Menander has been seen as a loose collection of gnomic sayings; with regard to the second, doubts have been raised about whether it is actually a Jewish Wisdom text because of the universality of its wisdom and the muted expression it gives to unequivocally Jewish ethics. …
The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture
Crossing the Boundary
Leo Perdue has applied Victor Turner's anthropological model of separation, liminality, and reaggregation to elucidate the social function of ancient wisdom texts. Ancient wisdom texts project the rhetorical situation of liminality upon their recipients in the course of imparting instruction, the effect of which is to integrate recipients at a new level into social structure. Using Turner's model, correlated with Berger's and Luckmann's model of …
A recent look at the factors influencing workforce retention in public child welfare
Orality, Writing, and Phantom Sources
In different ways and with quite different outcomes Dunn, Mournet, Baum, and Burkett invoke practices associated with orality and writing in the ancient world to call into question all or some aspects of the Two Document Hypothesis and to build rationales for alternative source hypotheses. In a criticism of their appeals to ancient media this essay works out the significance of cultural practices associated with orality, writing, and memory for f…
Cognition, Commemoration, and Tradition
Wirkungsgeschichtlich orientierte Forschung zum historischen Jesus benötigt eine angemessene Erklärung von Ursprung und Eigenheit der Jesusüberlieferung. Sie muss die Frage beantworten, auf welche Weise Tradition Vergangenheit vermittelt. Nach einer Kritik der sogenannten memory-distortion-Forschung untersucht der Aufsatz die Ursprünge der Jesustradition an der Schnittstelle zwischen Kognition und kulturellen Medien. Es wird gezeigt, dass Traditi…
Ehrman, Bauckham and Bird on Memory and the Jesus Tradition
The past twenty years have seen numerous studies applying memory research to problems in the history of the Jesus tradition and also in historical Jesus research, where it has become a point of controversy. Three recent book-length contributions to these debates are Bart Ehrman’s Jesus Before The Gospels (2016), the just-released second edition of Richard Bauckham’s 2006 volume, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (2017), and Michael Bird’s The Gospel of …
The Synoptic Problem, Ancient Media, and the Historical Jesus
Oral Tradition, Writing, and the Synoptic Problem
Assumptions about orality and writing that Synoptic Problem critics bring to their analysis profoundly affect their proposed solutions. The default premise has been a pronounced media dualism: conceiving orality and writing as mutually exclusive modes of transmission. This is evident right from the beginning in the source theories advanced by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Johann Carl Ludwig Gieseler…
The ‘Galilean Q Community’ and the Orientalist Legacy in 2DH Scholarship
Contemporary Q scholarship imagines the existence of a ‘Galilean Q Community’ furnished with a simple religious piety standing over against Judean/Jerusalem-centered Judaism with its narrow ethnic particularism, its cult ritualism, and its scribal legalism. The ‘Galilean Q community’ plays the same role vis-à-vis Judean Judaism in the imaginary of contemporary Q scholarship that Sufi Islam does in past and present western Orientalist discourses o…
Gedächtnistheorie und Neues Testament
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