Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives

List of Contributors

279 List of Contributors LOVEDAY ALEXANDER is emeritus professor of biblical studies at Sheffield University and Canon-Theologian at Chester Cathedral. She was trained as a classicist at Sommerville College, Oxford, and has retained an overriding interest in the boundaries between the New Testament and its Greco-Roman matrix. Future plans include a joint-authored volume on the School of Moses and the School of Christ (with Philip Alexander), and a commentary on Hebrews. DAVID E. AUNE is Walter Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Notre Dame and a fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab) and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Vitenskaps-Akademi). Among his books are Apocalypticism, Prophecy and Magic in Early Christianity (2006), The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric (2003), and a three-volume commentary on Revelation (1997–1998). SAMUEL BYRSKOG is the successor of Birger Gerhardsson on the chair as professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. His main publications include Jesus the Only Teacher (1994), Story as History – History as Story (2000), and Romarbrevet 1–8 (2006). He has also authored numerous essays and articles dealing with various aspects of tradition and transmission in early Christianity and its Jewish and Greco-Roman environment. 280B List of Contributors MARTIN S. JAFFEE holds the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, ca. 200 BCE–400 CE in addition to many other books and essays. His most recent book is The End of Jewish Radar: Snapshots of Postethnic American Judaism (2009). WERNER H. KELBER is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Rice University. His principal work is The Oral and the Written Gospel (Philadelphia, 1983; Paris, 1990; Bloomington, 1997). His other publications have focused on the search for the historical Jesus, gospel narrativity, orality-scribality studies, memory and rhetoric, text criticism, and the media history of the Bible. ALAN KIRK is chair of the department of philosophy and religion, James Madison University, Virginia. His research interests are ancient gospels, and most currently, applications of cognitive and cultural memory theory to problems in the origins and history of the gospel tradition. Recent publications include Memory, Tradition, and Text: Uses of the Past in Early Christianity, co-edited with Tom Thatcher (2005); “Memory Theory and Jesus Research,” in Handbook of the Study of the Historical Jesus, edited by Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter (2009); “Tradition and Memory in the Gospel of Peter,” in Das Evangelium nach Petrus: Text, Kontexte, Intertexte, edited by Tobias Nicklas and Thomas Kraus (2007). TERENCE C. MOURNET is associate professor of New Testament and director of educational technology at Sioux Falls Seminary, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and the author of Oral Tradition and Literary Dependency: Variability and Stability in the Synoptic Tradition and Q (2005). His current research is in the area of early Christianity and the New Testament with special interest in the following areas: the formation of the Synoptic tradition, orality and literacy in antiquity and postmodernity, oral performance and storytelling, folklore, historical Jesus research, and methodological questions relating to the study of Early Christianity. CHRISTOPHER TUCKETT is professor of New Testament Studies in the University of Oxford. He has published widely across a range of New Testament (and related) topics, with particular research interests in the history and development of Jesus traditions in early Christianity. His main publications as single-authored works include The Revival of the Griesbach Hypothesis (1982), Q and the History of Early Christianity (1996), Christology and the New Testament (2001), and The Gospel of Mary (2007). ...