Memory and Jesus' Parables: J.P. Meier's explosion and the restoration of the Bedrock' of Jesus' Speech
This article interacts with John P. Meier's view concerning the parables that can be shown to be "authentic," i.e., shown to have been uttered by the historical Jesus. His highly critical and largely negative result (only four parables remaining parables of Jesus) demonstrates once mo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2018]
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Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Year: 2018, Volume: 16, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 156-172 |
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John P. Meier
B historical Jesus research B Jesus B kingdom parables B Parable B Genre B History B Collective Memory |
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| Summary: | This article interacts with John P. Meier's view concerning the parables that can be shown to be "authentic," i.e., shown to have been uttered by the historical Jesus. His highly critical and largely negative result (only four parables remaining parables of Jesus) demonstrates once more that historical Jesus research that is intrinsically tied to questions of authenticity has run its course. Such an approach can only lead to minimalistic results and destroys the sources that we have. By contrast, the so-called memory approach tries to understand the process and result of remembering Jesus as a parable teller. Collective memory requires typification and repetition in order to bring the past to mind in a remembering community. Parables as a genre are such media of collective memory that shape and form not only the memory itself, but also the identity of the remembering community. Thus, the many parables of Jesus in early Christian writings are more than ever an indispensable source for historical research on the remembered Jesus, a point that is demonstrated in the final section of this article using kingdom parables as a test case. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5197 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Mnemonic Interplay (2018)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455197-01602006 |