Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Apostolic Tradition and the Form of the Gospel
Interpretation of Narrative and Narrative as Interpretation: Hermeneutical Reflections on the Gospels
Narrative and Disclosure: Mechanisms of Concealing, Revealing, and Reveiling
In the Beginning Were the Words: The Apotheosis and Narrative Displacement of the Logos
Jesus and Tradition: Words in Time, Words in Space
Language, Memory, and Sense Perception in the Religious and Technological Culture of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
The Oral and the Written Gospel: Fourteen Years Afterward
Memory's Desire or the Ordeal of Remembering: Judaism and Christianity
Geschichte als Kommunikationsgeschichte: Überlegungen zur Medienwissenschaft
On the History of the Quest, or: the Reduction of Polyvalency to Single Sense
The Works of Memory: Christian Origins as Mnemohistory
Orality and Biblical Scholarship: Seven Case Studies
Memory and Violence, or: Genealogies of Remembering (In Memory of Edith Wyschogrod)
The Work of Birger Gerhardsson in Perspective
The History of the Closure of Biblical Texts
The Work of Walter J. Ong and Biblical Scholarship
Works Cited
Index of Ancient Documents
Index of Authors
Index of Names and Subjects