The Gospel as manuscript : an early history of the Jesus tradition as material artifact / Chris Keith.
2020
BS2555.52 .K455 2020
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Title
The Gospel as manuscript : an early history of the Jesus tradition as material artifact / Chris Keith.
Author
Keith, Chris, author.
ISBN
9780199384396 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (288 pages).
Call Number
BS2555.52 .K455 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
226.04
Summary
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 30, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780199384372
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