Mighty in Word and Deed - (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für die Neutestamentliche Wissensch) by Stephen Hultgren (Hardcover)

About the Book

This is a 2-volume study of the Synoptic tradition of the Gospels against the background of the recent discussion about orality, narrativity and form criticism. It brings together textual criticism of Q and the early oral tradition about Jesus with

Book Synopsis

This book is the first of a two-volume work on the origins of the gospel form from a social memory approach. Social memory takes account of both the individual and the community in the formation of the gospels by considering social frameworks and socially significant narrative patterns that individuals use to remember and recount the past. Part 1 reviews the history of scholarship and then develops a social memory approach and a method of textual study, drawing on insights from recent research on orality, memory, and narrative. Part 2 offers a series of textual studies, focusing on Capernaum and Nazareth, illustrating factors that might have contributed to the construction of a gospel as an extended narrative, inclusive of Jesus's words and deeds, and why such a narrative was essential to early Christian memory of Jesus.

About the Author

Stephen Hultgren, Australian Lutheran College, North Adelaide, Australia.