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Memory and the Jesus Tradition
Memory and the Jesus Tradition

Alan Kirk

Alan Kirk is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018

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Memory and Manuscript: Gerhardsson Revisited[*]

DOI: 10.5040/9780567663474.0013
Page Range: 93–113

[*] Originally published in Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives (ed. Samuel Byrskog and Werner H. Kelber; Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008), pp. 155–72. Used by permission.

Birger Gerhardsson’s concern was for a history of the tradition grounded ancient cultural practices. This in turn led him to assign memory the crucial operational role in the tradition’s origins and transmission. In so doing he anticipated important contemporary developments in the humanities and social sciences, where memory has become a dominant research paradigm. This is all the more remarkable given that Memory and Manuscript appeared a time when scholarship, dominated by form criticism, had all but discounted the memory factor....

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