Tom Thatcher is Professor of Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University.

• Beyond Texts and Traditions: Werner Kelber's Media History of Christian Origins - Tom Thatcher""It's Not Easy to Take a Fresh Approach"": Reflections on The Oral and Written Gospel (An Interview with Werner Kelber) - Werner Kelber and Tom ThatcherOral Performance and Mark: Some Implications of The Oral and the Written Gospel, Twenty-Five Years Later- Richard A. HorsleyThe Gospel of Mark as Oral Hermeneutic - Joanna DeweyStorytelling in Oral and Written Media Contexts of the Ancient Mediterranean World - Holly E. HearonVice Catalogues as Oral-Mnemonic Cues: A Comparative Study of the Two Ways Tradition in the Didache and Parallels from the Perspective of Oral Tradition - Jonathan DraperHuman Memory and the Sayings of Jesus: Contemporary Experimental Exercises in the Transmission of Jesus Traditions - April D. DeConickThe Gospel of Trajan - Arthur J. DeweyThe Scar of the Cross: The Violence Ratio and the Earliest Christian Memories of Jesus - Chris Keith and Tom ThatcherManuscript Tradition as a Tertium Quid: Orality and Memory in Scribal Practices - Alan KirkThe Oral-Scribal-Memorial Arts of Communication in Early Christianity - Werner H. KelberNotesWorks CitedContributors

Jesus, the Voice, and the Text is enlightening and easily accessible to scholars of religion and the casual reader alike. -Martin S. Jaffee, Samuel and Althea Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies, Comparative Religion, & International Studies, University of Washington