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Introduction

JOACHIM SCHAPER: The Living Word Engraved in Stone: The Interrelationship of the Oral and the Written and the Culture of Memory in the Books of Deuteronomy and Joshua

I. Introduction

II. Literary and Exegetical Observations

III. Writing, Orality, and Memory in Deuteronomy and Joshua

IV. Writing, memory, and death: anthropological and theological considerations

V. Historical and theological conclusions

List of Works Cited

ERHARD BLUM: Historiography or Poetry? The Nature of the Hebrew Bible Prose Tradition

I. Historiography versus Traditional Narrative

The Ionic Paradigm

The “Israelite” Paradigm

II. Fictional Poetry versus Addressee-oriented Propositional Literature

III. Some Exegetical Reflections

BENJAMIN G. WORLD: Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Exodus, Creation and Cosmos

I. Remembrance in the Hebrew Bible

II. זכר and the Exodus in the Dead Sea Library

a. 4Q185 (“Sapiential Work”)

b. 4Q370 (“Exhortation Based on Flood”)

c. Damascus Document

d. 4Q462 (“Narrative”)

e. 4Q504 1–2 v (“Words of the Luminaries”)

f. 4Q463 (“Narrative D”)

g. Summary

III. Remembrance of Creation and Cosmos

a. 1QSerekh haYahad

b. 1/4QInstruction

c. 1/4QMysteries

IV. Conclusions

LOREN T. STUCKENBRUCK: The Teacher of Righteousness Remembered: From Fragmentary Sourcesto Collective Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls

1. Introduction

2. The Teacher of Righteousness: an Overview of the Texts

3. What, Then, Is Remembered About the Teacher?

4. Conclusion

HERMANN LICHTENBERGER: History-writing and History-telling in First and Second Maccabees

I. Classification of Perspective

II. The Literary Character of 1 and 2 Maccabees

II.1. The Literary Character and Theological Framework of 1 Maccabees

II.2. The Literary Character and Theological Framework of 2 Maccabees

III. Prayer and the Understanding of the Story

IV. Historical Writing in 1 and 2 Maccabees?

WILLIAM HORBURY: The Remembrance of God in the Psalms of Solomon

1. Remembrance of the Deity in the Biblical Tradition

2. The Psalms of Solomon on Remembrance of the Deity

3. The Psalms of Solomon in the Light of Philo and Greek Piety

JHON BARCLAY: Memory Politics: Josephus on Jews in the Memory of the Greeks

1. The Cultural Significance of Memory Blanks

2. The Greeks and ancient “Orientalism”

3. Clearchus and the Memory of a Philosophical Jew

4. Josephus and the ironies of memory politics

DORON MENDELS: Societies of Memory in the Graeco-Roman World

I. Was there a canon of historical works in antiquity? A long process over a long time created a collective memory of ancient history in Western civilization

II. Fragmented historical memories, comprehensive and collective memories

III. Alternative collective memory

IV. Non-memory: Plato’s Politeia

V. Public memory: mechanisms of communication and the preservation of public memory

VI. An Inscribed Fragmented Memory from Palestine: The Case of 1 Maccabees

VII. Commemorating the Early Church: the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius as a Site of Memory

VIII. Christian Memories of Jews between 300–450 CE: Law as Memory

Conclusions

ANTHONY LE DONNE: Theological Memory Distortion in the Jesus Tradition: A Study in Social Memory Theory

What is Memory Distortion?

Articulation and Narrativization

Metanarrative and Typology

The Typological Jesus Tradition

Concluding Remarks

Works Cited

JAMES D. G. DUNN: Social Memory and the Oral Jesus Tradition

1. Introduction

2. How does memory function?

3. The key features of oral tradition/remembering in my thesis

3.1 Jesus the teacher

3.2 The impact of Jesus

3.3 The beginning of the oral tradition

3.4 Performing oral tradition

Conclusion

MARTIN HENGEL: Der Lukasprolog und seine Augenzeugen: Die Apostel, Petrus und die Frauen

1. Das Doppelwerk und seine Prologe

2. Der Autor Lukas und seine Zeit

3. Lk, seine „Augenzeugen“ und seine „Quellen“

4. Die „zwölf Apostel“ als „Augen- und Ohrenzeugen“

5. Petrus und die Apostel

6. Die Distanz zwischen Petrus und Paulus: Harmonisierung durch Abgrenzung

7. Die „apostolische“ Evangelientradition als Garantin der Einheit der Kirche

8. Die Frauen als Ausnahme, die die Regel bestätigt

ULRIKE MITTMANN-RICHERT: Erinnerung und Heilserkenntnis im Lukasevangelium

1. Jesu Wort als Haftpunkt der Erinnerung (Lk 24,1–12.36–49)

2. Jesus als Gottes Wort in Person (Lk 9,28–36)

3. Das „für euch“ als Ermöglichung und als Gegenstand der Erinnerung (Lk 24,13–35)

4. Jesu Tod als Erkenntnisgrund der Erinnerung (Lk 22,19 f)

5. Die Verkündigung des Erinnerten (Lk 24,45–48)

Resümee: Die hermeneutische Funktion der Erinnerung

Bibliographie

ANNA MARIA SCHWEMER: Erinnerung und Legende: Die Berufung des Paulus und ihre Darstellung in der Apostelgeschichte

1. Zum Problem: Erinnerung oder Legende?

2. Das Selbstzeugnis des Paulus

3. Der dreifache Bericht in der Apostelgeschichte

3.1. Die Bekehrung des Paulus in Apg 9,1–30

3.2. Christusvision und Sendung zu den Völkern nach Apg 22

3.3. Christusvision und Sendung zu den Völkern nach Apg 26,1–23

4. Ergebnis

HANS-JOACHIM ECKSTEIN: Das Johannesevangelium als Erinnerung an die Zukunft der Vergangenheit

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STEPHEN C. BARTON: Memory and Remembrance in Paul

I. Introduction

II. Memory and Remembrance in Greco-Roman Antiquity

III. Memory and Remembrance in the Bible and Early Judaism

IV. The fate of memory and remembrance in Paul’s apocalyptic epistemology

V. What Paul remembers and why

V.1 Prayer as remembrance

V.2 Almsgiving as remembrance

V.3 Meals as remembrance

V.4 Autobiography as remembrance

V.4.1 Paul’s autobiography in 1 and 2 Corinthians

V.4.2 Paul’s autobiography in Galatians

V.4.3 Paul’s autobiography in Philippians

VI. Conclusion

MARKUS BOCKMUEHL: New Testament Wirkungsgeschichte and the Early Christian Appeal to Living Memory

The Promise of ‘Effective’ History

Truth and Memory: How We Know the Past

Memories Ancient and Modern

The Proof of the Pudding

The Early Church’s Memory of the Apostles

Memory and History

Works cited

List of Contributors

Index

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