Mighty in Word and Deed Book 1. Social Memory, Christology, and the Construction of a Gospel Narrative

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This book is the first of a two-volume work on the origins of the gospel form from a social memory approach. Social memory takes account of both the individual and the community in the formation of the gospels by considering social frameworks and socially significant narrative patterns that individuals use to remember and recount the past. Part 1 reviews the history of scholarship and then develops a social memory approach and a method of textual study, drawing on insights from recent research on orality, memory, and narrative. Part 2 offers a series of textual studies, focusing on Capernaum and Nazareth, illustrating factors that might have contributed to the construction of a gospel as an extended narrative, inclusive of Jesus’s words and deeds, and why such a narrative was essential to early Christian memory of Jesus. Acknowledgements Contents Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Problem and Task, Approach and Method Chapter 1 The Origins of the Gospel Form: A Century of Scholarship Chapter 2 A Social Memory Approach Part 2: Capernaum and Nazareth Chapter 3 Overture (Introduction to Part 2) Chapter 4 Matthew 8:5–13 // Luke 7:1–10 (Q, Capernaum) Chapter 5 Mark 1:21–28 (Capernaum) Chapter 6 Mark 2:1–12 (Capernaum) Chapter 7 Luke 4:16–30 (Q?) and Mark 6:1–6a (Nazareth) Chapter 8 Verifications: John 4:43–5:30 Conclusion to Book 1 Bibliography Index of Scripture References Index of Other Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors