Altering the default setting: Re-envisaging the early transmission of the Jesus tradition

New Testament Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-175

  Dunn, James D G ^a  

^a Abbey House ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844278831     PISSN: 00286885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0028688503000080     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. B. Reicke, The Roots of the Synoptic Gospels (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986) ch. 1
2. E. P. Sanders and M. Davies, Studying the Synoptic Gospels (London: SCM, 1989) 51-162
3. J. S. Kloppenborg Verbin, Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000) 271-408
4. ET H. Chadwick, Lessing's Theological Writings (London: A. & C. Black)
5. Schnelle, History, 162-3
6. Reicke, Roots, 12-13
7. years before the better known 'Über die Zeugnisse des Papias von unseren beiden ersten Evangelien', Theologische Studien und Kritiken 5 (1832) 738-58
8. J. G. Herder, 'Vom Erlöser der Menschen', Herder Werke: Theologische Schriften 9/1 (Frankfurt: Deutscher Klassiker, 1994) particularly 671-87 (here 679)
9. Moffatt, Introduction, 180
10. There is no need to rehearse the usual litany of Lachmann, Weisse, etc.; for details see e.g. Kümmel, New Testament, 146-51
11. Kloppenborg Verbin, Excavating Q, 295-309
12. and Proto-Luke, particularly V. Taylor, Behind the Third Gospel (Oxford: Clarendon, 1926)
13. B. H. Streeter, The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins (London: Macmillan, 1924) ch. 9 (quotations from 229)
14. J. Wellhausen, Einleitung in die drei ersten Evangelien (Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1905) 43
15. R. Bultmann, Die Geschichte der synoptischen Tradition (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1921; ET Oxford: Blackwell, 1963)
16. Kümmel, Introduction, particularly 76-9
17. W. R. Farmer, The Synoptic Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1964) ch. 6
18. M. E. Boismard, 'The Two-Source Theory at an Impasse', NTS 26 (1979) 261-73
19. M. Goulder, Luke: A New Paradigm (2 vols; JSNTS 20; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1989) in his attempt to dispense with Q (particularly vol. 1 ch. 2)
20. M. Goodacre, The Case Against Q (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity International, 2002) 56-9, 89-90 (despite 64-6, 188)
21. J. S. Kloppenborg, The Formation of Q: Trajectories in Ancient Wisdom Collections (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987)
22. Notably F. Neirynck, 'Paul and the Sayings of Jesus', BETL 73 (1986) 265-321
23. repr. in Evangelica II (Leuven: Peeters, 1991) 511-68. Neirynck's many and valuable contributions on the Gospels well illustrate the dominance of the literary paradigm
24. W. J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Methuen, 1982; Routledge, 1988) 12-13
25. See also M. McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1962)
26. and E. A. Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present (New Haven: Yale University, 1986), where Havelock sums up a scholarly lifetime of reflection on the transition from orality to literacy
27. W. H. Kelber, The Oral and the Written Gospel (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983
28. M. Bar-Ilan, 'Illiteracy in the Land of Israel in the First Centuries CE', in S. Fishbane and S. Schoenfeld, Essays in the Social Scientific Study of Judaism and Jewish Society (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1992) 46-61
29. C. Hezser, Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001)
30. J. D. Crossan, The Birth of Christianity (San Francisco: Harper, 1998) has little doubt that Jesus was illiterate (235)
31. similarly B. Chilton, Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (New York: Doubleday, 2000) 99
32. and particularly J. L. Reed, Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity International, 2000)
33. K. E. Bailey, 'Informal Controlled Oral Tradition and the Synoptic Gospels', Asia Journal of Theology 5 (1991) 34-54
34. R. Finnegan, Oral Literature in Africa (Oxford: Clarendon, 1970)
35. and I. Okpewho, African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character and Continuity (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1992)
36. See e.g. Finnegan, Oral Literature, 2-7
37. See further P. J. Achtemeier, 'Omne verbum sonat: The New Testament and the Oral Environment of Late Western Antiquity', JBL 109 (1990) 3-27
38. J. M. Foley, Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1991) chs. 1 and 2 (particularly 6-13 and 42-5)
39. Vansina, Oral Tradition as History, 37
40. D. C. Parker, The Living Text of the Gospels (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1997)
41. E. J. Epp, 'The Multivalence of the Term "Original Text" in New Testament Textual Criticism', HTR 92 (1999) 245-81
42. Kelber, Oral, 33, 54
43. quoting E. A. Havelock, Preface to Plato (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1963) 92, 147, 184, passim
44. Bultmann, History, 127-8
45. E. Käsemann, 'Is the Gospel Objective?', Essays on New Testament Themes (London: SCM, 1964) 48-62
46. See further J. D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003) #8.2
47. B. Gerhardsson, Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity (Lund: Gleerup, 1961)
48. Cf. Schröter, Erinnerung, 55, 60
49. Full statistics in R. Morgenthaler, Statistische Synapse (Zürich/Stuttgart: Gotthelf, 1971) 239-43
50. Here the examples from the Jesus tradition produced by J. Jeremias, New Testament Theology. Part One: The Proclamation of Jesus (London: SCM, 1971) are very much to the point (20-7)
51. Achtemeier, 'Omne verbum sonat', 23-4
52. See particularly J. Dewey, 'Oral Methods of Structuring Narrative in Mark', Interpretation 43 (1989) 32-44
53. Horsley, Hearing the Whole Story, ch. 3
54. See particularly H. Schürmann, 'Die vorösterlichen Anfänge der Logientradition: Versuch eines formgeschichtlichen Zugangs zum Leben Jesu', in H. Ristow and K. Matthiae, eds, Der historische Jesus und der kerygmatische Christus (Berlin: Evangelische, 1961) 342-70
55. J. M. Robinson et al., eds, The Critical Edition of Q (Minneapolis: Fortress/Leuven: Peeters, 2000)
56. Cf. F. G. Downing, 'Word-Processing in the Ancient World; The Social Production and Performance of Q', JSNT 64 (1996) 29-48
57. C. H. Dodd, 'The Framework of the Gospel Narrative', New Testament Studies (Manchester: Manchester University, 1953) 1-11
58. See also N. T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God (London: SPCK, 1992) 442
59. Schröter, Erinnerung, 439-51