I'm working through some thoughts on the identity of Paul's interlocutor in Romans (chapters 2–11, though my focus is on Romans 1–4)...

In contrast to that other article I was reading , Samuel Byrskog's 2003 review of Rudolf Bultmann's classic, Die Geschichte der syno...

I'm reading a fairly ridiculous article by Helmut Koester. His short piece, "Written Gospels or Oral Tradition?" ( JBL  113/2 ...

I'm reading Samuel Byrskog's article, "A New Quest for the Sitz im Leben : Social Memory, the Jesus Tradition and the Gospel of...

The SECSOR  2011 meeting is this weekend (4–6 March) at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, KY. The pictures look gorgeous, and I'm exci...

I haven't read Pieter Botha before. I've done quite a bit of reading in oral traditional research and the gospels (including the gos...

I'm reading an essay by Kristina Dronsch and Annette Weissenrieder, entitled, "A Theory for the Message for New Testament Writings ...

I'm still working through David Rhoads's essay, "Performance Events in Early Christianity," and Rhoads has just made an ex...

I'm still reading The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres  (A. Weissenrieder and R....

I'm currently reading Richard Horsley's essay, "The Gospel of Mark in the Interface of Orality and Writing," in The Interf...

One of my perennial interests concerns the way we have distinguished Judaism  from Christianity  and the various ways this distinction has a...

In my gospel narratives class I regularly refer to "tradition"—whether "gospel tradition" or "Jesus tradition"...

In my last post I presented, in his own words, Martin Dibelius's conception of those responsible for the Jesus tradition as the anonymo...

The opening words of the English translation of Martin Dibelius's landmark work, Die Formgeschichte des Evangeliums  (1919): There is a...

In the summer of 2005 I settled upon the metaphor of langue  and parole  to express my view of the relationship between any particular expre...

I just found out today that my paper, "Speaking of Jesus: 'Oral Tradition' beyond the Form Critics," was accepted by the (...

Now that I've finished reading Jesus in Memory , I've been able to return to Harry Gamble's very important monograph, Books and ...

Werner Kelber's essay, "The Work of Birger Gerhardsson in Perspective," concludes the book, Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Ora...

One of my perennial interests centers on the ways different cultural and historical perspectives influence the way we perceive written texts...

Martin Jaffee is probably one of my favorite scholars of oral tradition and the relation between orally transmitted and actualized material ...