Contents
Abbreviations
Preface: Keys, Frames, and the Problem of the Past
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Memory and History, Barry Schwartz
Part 1: Remembering in Jewish Antiquity
Selective Recall and Ghost Memories: Two Aspects of Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible, Carol A. Newsom
Old Memories, New Identities: Traumatic Memory, Exile, and Identity Formation in the Damascus Document and Pesher Habakkuk, Tim Langille
Cult’s Death in Scripture: The Destruction of Jerusalem's Temple Remembered by Josephus and Mark, Gabriella Gelardini
Memory and Loss in Early Rabbinic Text and Ritual, Steven D. Fraade
Part 2: Remembering in Emerging Christianity
The Memory–Tradition Nexus in the Synoptic Tradition: Memory, Media, and Symbolic Representation, Alan Kirk
Prolegomena on the Textualization of Mark’s Gospel: Manuscript Culture, the Extended Situation, and the Emergence of the Written Gospel, Chris Keith
The Memory of the Beloved Disciple: A Poetics of Johannine Memory, Jeffrey E. Brickle
The Shape of John’s Story: Memory-Mapping the Fourth Gospel, Tom Thatcher
“According to the Scriptures”: Suffering and the Psalms in the Speeches in Acts, Rafael Rodríguez
On the Difficulty of Molding a Rock: The Negotiation of Peter’s Reputation in Early Christian Memory, Frederick S. Tappenden
Social Memory and Commemoration of the Death of “the Lord”: Paul’s Response to the Lord’s Supper Factions at Corinth, Dennis C. Duling
Part 3: Reflections on a Coming Conversation
Harvest, Barry Schwartz
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index