Structuring Early Christian Memory: Jesus in Tradition, Performance and Text: Jesus in Tradition, Performance and Text (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780567264206)

Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present because it is a relationship which finds expression in memorial acts such as storytelling and text-production.

This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which "past" and "present" are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant complication directly affects the procedures and products of "historical Jesus" research, which depends particularly on the assumption that we can cleanly separate "authentic" from "inauthentic" traditions.

In Structuring Early Christian Memory Rafael Rodriguez analyzes the problems that arise from this assumption and proposes a "historical Jesus" program that is more sensitive to the entanglement of past and present.

Author: Rafael Rodriguez
ISBN-10: 0567264203
ISBN-13: 9780567264206
Publisher: T&T Clark
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2010
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 24