Publication

2018 - Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Company KG

Language

English

Word Count

89,000 words, Guess

Page Count

356 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783161557293
  • ISBN-103161557298
  • OCLC Control Number1028536411
  • Better World Books9783161557293
  • Open LibraryOL35959608M

Classifications

  • LCCHM753.M466 2018
  • LCCHM753 .M466 2018

Description

Bringing together thirteen talks given at the international conference "Memory and Memories in Early Christianity", held at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva in June 2016, this interdisciplinary volume explores a fresh problem in the study of the origins of Christianity and of the New Testament, namely the "work of memory" undertaken in the discourses and practices of the believers in Jesus. The studies collected here not aonly apply a heuristic analytical tool - "social memory theory" - to the literature and history of Christian beginnings, but also endeavour to show the socio-religious resonance of this "work of memory" in the language and ideology of the early believers. The historical Jesus, the Pauline writings, the Gospel of John, the Acts of the Apostles, Marcion, ancient Christian epistolography, Hegesippus, Irenaeus, etc. are explored by some of the world's top specialists in "Social memory studies" as applied to Christian origins -- Book Cover.

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