The Birth of Christian History: Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300165099 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Eve Marie Becker poses large questions about that literature, such as how memory works and what purposes it serves, how history relates to mythology, how time is construed and manipulated in narrating the past. “Early Christian accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus,however else they may be labeled, are narratives of a remembered past told to shape a community's future, historiography broadly construed. This book will no doubt stimulate debate and renewed reflection on how early Christian texts relate to their literary context.”—Harold Attridge, Yale University
While acknowledging cases of historical awareness in other New Testament writings, Becker traces the origins of this historiographical approach to the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Acts. The first comprehensive account to explore the beginnings of early Christian history writing, tracing its origin to the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Acts When the Gospel writings were first produced, Christian thinking was already cognizant of its relationship to ancient memorial cultures and history-writing traditions. Yet, little has been written about exactly what shaped the development of early Christian literary memory. Offering a bold new framework, Becker shows how the earliest Christian writings shaped “Christian” thinking and writing about history.. In this eye-opening new study, Eve-Marie Becker explores the diverse ways in which history was written according to the Hellenistic literary tradition, focusing specifically on the time during which the New Testament writings came into being: from the mid-first cent