The Gospel as manuscript : an early history of the Jesus tradition as material artifact

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Label

The Gospel as manuscript : an early history of the Jesus tradition as material artifact

Title remainder

an early history of the Jesus tradition as material artifact

Statement of responsibility

Chris Keith

Creator

• Keith, Chris

Subject

• Bible, Gospels -- Criticism, Textual
• Bible, Gospels -- Manuscripts
• Jesus Christ -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Transmission of texts

Language

eng

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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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized