Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition - Brossura

Eve, Eric

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ISBN 10: 1451469403 ISBN 13: 9781451469400

Casa editrice: Fortress Pr, 2014

Riassunto

For a hundred years, the million dollar question has been, What was the nature and state of the tradition between Jesus and the gospels? Eve surveys the major proposals, offers critical and constructive commentary, and makes appropriately nuanced suggestions of his own. On this topic, his work is now the place to start' Dale C. Allison, Jr. Professor of New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary 'Eric Eve has written a magnificent guide to one of the most exciting areas in Gospels studies today - oral tradition and memory theory. With clear writing and judicious assessment, he covers the important personalities and ideas in the search to get behind the Gospels, from form criticism to the present. I highly recommend this book to scholars and students alike' Chris Keith, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, St Mary's University College, London 'Eric Eve gives a balanced and lucid account of all attempts to reconstruct the oral tradition behind the written Gospels . . . Eve's judgments on these questions are fair, his arguments convincing. This is a foundational book both for Jesus research and for our understanding of the literary history of the New Testament' Gerd Theissen, Professor Emeritus of New Testament, University of Heidelberg

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This book shows that there has been real progress in biblical studies since form criticism started to investigate the oral prehistory of the Gospels. After a century of research we know much more about the prehistory of the Gospels and, just as important, what we do not know and perhaps will never know. Eric Eve gives a balanced and lucid account of all attempts to reconstruct the oral tradition behind the written Gospels. Was it controlled by some authorities? Was it stabilized by an informal control of the audience? Is there a break between oral and written media? Were the texts formed by the laws of tradition or rather by the laws of collective and personal memory? Can we grasp traces of eyewitnesses in the Gospels? Eve s judgements on these questions are fair, his arguments convincing. This is a foundational book both for Jesus research and for our understanding of the literary history of the New Testament. --Gerd Theissen, Professor Emeritus of New Testament, University of Heidelberg

For a hundred years, the million-dollar question has been, What was the nature and state of the tradition between Jesus and the Gospels? Eve surveys the major proposals, offers critical and constructive commentary, and makes appropriately nuanced suggestions of his own. On this topic, his work is now the place to start. --Dale C. Allison, Jr., Professor of New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Exquisitely nuanced, acutely sensitive, and immensely fair reportage of a complex and at times bewildering new subdiscipline in biblical scholarship. Skillfully organizing a vast array of materials and theories, carefully weighing the pros and cons, Eve has managed to tell a gripping story and to make orality studies the fascinating subject that it is. More than that, throughout he conveys a sense of the paradigmatic significance of orality studies that may hold it within their power to make substantial contributions to much-needed new perspectives on the Synoptic tradition. . . Eve s assessment of positions taken and concepts proposed is sensible, sound, and almost always to the point. . . This is a book of programmatic significance, and one hopes for a wide readership not only among biblical scholars but among humanists and social scientists who have an interest in the issue of oral tradition. --Werner H. Kelber, Rice University Houston, Texas

L'autore:

Eric Eve is Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

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• Editore: Fortress Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1451469403
• ISBN 13: 9781451469400
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 206