Jesus in Memory

Werner H. Kelber is Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor Emeritus in Biblical Studies, Rice University. His other works include The Oral and the Written Gospel: The Hermeneutics of Speaking and Writing in the Synoptic Tradition; Mark, Paul, and Q; Mark's Story of Jesus; and The Kingdom in Mark: A New Place and a New Time. He lives in Bellville, Texas.Samuel Byrskog is Professor of New Testament, University of Lund. He is the author or editor of several books, including Story as History - History as Story: The Gospel Tradition in the Context of Ancient Oral History; and Jesus the Only Teacher: Didactic Authority and Transmission in Ancient Israel, Ancient Judaism, and the Matthean Community. He lives in Lund, Sweden.

• IntroductionSamuel Byrskog?á1. Form CriticismChristopher Tuckett2. The Jesus Tradition as Oral TraditionTerence C. Mournet3. Jesus Tradition and the Pauline LettersDavid E. Aune4. Honi the Circler in Manuscript and Memory: An Experimentin ""Re-Oralizing"" the Talmudic TextMartin S. Jaffee5. Memory and Tradition in the Hellenistic SchoolsLoveday Alexander6. MemoryAlan Kirk?áConclusion: The Work of Birger Gerhardsson in PerspectiveWerner H. KelberNotesBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Modern Authors

This volume is ideal for scholars desiring an entrée into Gerhardsson's work or issues of orality, textuality, and memory, as well as scholars who are well versed in these areas. It appropriately offers tribute to Gerhardsson in a manner that makes clear the past, present, and future of an exciting area of NT scholarship he helped create. -- Restoration Quarterly