Jesus and the Oral Gospel Tradition

Henry Wansborough

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Year: 1991
• Print ISBN:
  9781850753292
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567366894
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

A collection of papers from two international symposia by such important scholars as Aune, Dunn, Gerhardsson, Meyer, Rordorf and Talmon. The articles share the conviction that the only way to break the deadlock in the Synoptic problem is to examine the oral tradition about Jesus which lay behind the Gospels, and to continue even beyond them. The book addresses such central issues as the characteristics of oral tradition: oral tradition in Judaism, in the teaching of Jesus (his aphorisms and the narrative meshalim) and in the Gospel narratives; and the relationships of John, Paul and the Didache to oral tradition. This volume should bring onto a new plane the discussion of the all-important oral stage of Gospel tradition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Editorial Board
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Abbreviations
• HENRY WANSBROUGH Introduction
• ØIVIND ANDERSEN Oral Tradition
• DAVID E. AUNE Prolegomena to the Study of Oral Tradition in the Hellenistic World
• HANS-PETER RÜGER Oral Tradition in the Old Testament
• SHEMAR YAHU TALMON Oral Tradition and Written Transmission, or the Heard and the Seen Word in Judaism of the Second Temple Period
• PHILIP S. ALEXANDER Orality in Pharisaic-rabbinic Judaism at the Turn of the Eras
• RAINER RIESNER Jesus as Preacher and Teacher
• DAVID E.AUNE Oral Tradition and the Aphorisms of Jesus
• BIRGER GERHARDSSON Illuminating the Kingdom: Narrative Meshalim in the Synoptic Gospels
• E.EARLE ELLIS The Making of Narratives in the Synoptic Gospels
• MARION L. SOARDS Oral Tradition Before, In, and Outside the Canonical Passion Narratives
• JAMES D.G. DUNN John and the Oral Gospel Tradition
• TRAUGOTTHOLTZ Paul and the Oral Gospel Tradition
• WILLY RORDORF Does the Didache Contain Jesus Tradition Independently of the Synoptic Gospels?
• BEN F. MEYER Some Consequences of Birger Gerhardsson's Account of the Origins of the Gospel Tradition
• Index of Biblical and other References
• Index of Authors