The Gospel as Manuscript

An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19992014
AutoresChris Keith (autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Páginas288
Data de publicação2020-04-23
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoGospel As Manuscript (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780199384372.001.0001
OpenAlexW4253407072
Open LibraryOL28068105M
ISBN9780199384372
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12

This book offers a new material history of the Jesus tradition. It shows that the introduction of manuscripts to the transmission of the Jesus tradition played an underappreciated but crucial role in the reception history of the tradition that eventuated. It focuses particularly on the competitive textualization of the Jesus tradition, whereby Gospel authors drew attention to the written nature of their tradition, sometimes in attempts to assert superiority to predecessors, and the public reading of the Jesus tradition. Both these processes reveal efforts on the part of early followers of Jesus to place the gospel-as-manuscript on display, whether in the literary tradition or in the assembly. Building upon interdisciplinary work on ancient book cultures, this book traces an early history of the gospel as artifact from the textualization of Mark in the first century until the eventual usage of liturgical reading as a marker of authoritative status in the second and third centuries and beyond. Overall, it reveals a vibrant period of the development of the Jesus tradition, wherein the material status of the tradition frequently played as important a role as the ideas about Jesus that it contained

Art · Artifact (error) · Gospel · Literature · Reading (process) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Bible · Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc · Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. gospels · Bible, manuscripts · Doctrinal Theology · History of doctrines · Jesus christ, history of doctrines · Manuscripts · Textual Criticism · Transmission of texts