Jesus, the Voice, and the Text: Beyond The Oral and the Written Gospels

Contributors

¢ 295 CONTRIBUTORS Werner H. Kelber was formerly Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Cultures at Rice University. He is the author of numerous papers, articles, and books on media culture, with particular attention to the interfaces between orality , scribality, and print in Western intellectual history. His major works include Mark’s Story of Jesus (1979) and The Oral and the Written Gospel (1983). He is currently working on a collection of essays and a forthcoming two-volume study entitled Words in Time, Words in Space. Tom Thatcher is Professor of Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University. His research interests focus on ancient Christian media culture , Jesus Studies, and the Johannine Literature. He is the author/editor of numerous books and articles, including The Riddles of Jesus in John: A Study in Tradition and Folklore (2000), Why John Wrote a Gospel: Jesus– Memory–History (2006), Jesus the Riddler (2006), and Memory, Tradition, and Text: Uses of the Past in Early Christianity (with Alan Kirk; 2005). He currently serves as co-chair of the Mapping Memory Group in the Society of Biblical Literature. RichardA.Horsley is Distinguished Professor of LiberalArts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His wide-ranging research interests highlight the social contexts of the ministries of Jesus and Paul and the development of early Jesus traditions. He is the author/ editor of numerous books, including Hearing the Whole Story: The Politics 296 Contributors of Plot in Mark’s Gospel (2001), Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q (2006), Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (with Jonathan A. Draper and John Miles Foley; 2006), and Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea (2007). JoannaDeweyisHarveyH.Guthrie,Jr.ProfessorEmeritaof BiblicalStudies at Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Her research interests focus on the Gospel of Mark and its oral media environment. Her many books and articles include Mark as Story (with David Rhoads and Donald Michie; 1999) and Orality and Textuality in Early Christian Literature (editor; 1994). She has long been a leading voice in the Society of Biblical Literature, including service as Chair of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section from 1992-1996. Holly E. Hearon is Associate Professor of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary (Indianapolis, Indiana). Her research interests highlight the lives and experiences of early Christian women, relationships between early Christianity and formative Judaism, and the place of the Gospels in ancient media culture. She is the author of The Mary Magdalene Tradition (2004) and editor of Distant Voices Drawing Near (2004), as well as numerous papers and articles. She currently serves on the steering committees of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section (Chair) and the Mapping Memory Group in the Society of Biblical Literature. Jonathan A. Draper teaches in the School of Religion and Theology at the University of Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa). His research interests encompass a wide range of topics relating to the media environment of Christian origins, including Historical Jesus Studies, orality/literacy interfaces, and non-canonical Christian literature. He is the author/editor of numerous studies, including The Didache in Modern Research (1996), Whoever Hears You Hears Me (with Richard Horsley; 1999), and the acclaimed Semeia Studies volumes Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa (2003) and Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity (2004). April D. DeConick is Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University. Her research explores the various ways that Jesus traditions developed in competing sectors of the early church. She is the author of numerous books and articles on non-canonical early Christian literature, including Seek to See Him: Ascent and Vision Mysticism in the Contributors 297 Gospel of Thomas (1996), Voices of the Mystics: Early Christian Discourse in the Gospels of John, Thomas and Other Ancient Christian Literature (2001), Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas (2005),and The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel (2006). Her current research projects focus on Gnostic spirituality and mysticism in the New Testament Gospels. ArthurJ.Dewey is Professor of Theology at Xavier University (Cincinnati). He is a former chair of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section in the Society of Biblical Literature and a founding member of the Jesus Seminar, and the author of numerous articles...