The Gospel as manuscript: an early history of the Jesus tradition as material artifact
The written accounts of the Jesus tradition in the Gospels have taken a far superior position in the Christian faith to any oral tradition. In The Gospel as Manuscript, Chris Keith offers a new material history of the Jesus tradition's journey from voice to page, showing that the introduction o...
| Summary: | The written accounts of the Jesus tradition in the Gospels have taken a far superior position in the Christian faith to any oral tradition. In The Gospel as Manuscript, Chris Keith offers a new material history of the Jesus tradition's journey from voice to page, showing that the introduction of manuscripts played an underappreciated, but crucial, role in the reception history of the Gospel. Revealing a vibrant period of competitive development of the Jesus tradition, wherein the material status of the tradition frequently played as important a role as the ideas that it contained, Keith offers one of the most thorough considerations of the competitive textualization and public reading of the Gospels. cover -- Half title -- The Gospel as Manuscript -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Elixir of Life and Death -- 1. The Book as Artifact -- 2. Sociologies of the Book in the Study of Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity -- 3. The Textualization of Mark's Gospel -- 4. The Competitive Textualization of the Synoptic Tradition -- 5. The Competitive Textualization of Johannine and Thomasine Tradition -- 6. The Public Reading of the Jesus Tradition in the First Three Centuries -- 7. The Public Reading of the Jesus Tradition and the Emergence of Christian Identity -- Conclusion: The Gospel as Manuscript -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources Index -- General Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0190097248 |