Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition

New Testament scholars often talk about oral tradition as a means by which material about Jesus reached the writers of the Gospels; but despite the recent flowering of interest in oral tradition, the study of memory, and the role of eye-witnesses, the latest scholarly advances have yet to fully penetrate the mainstream of academic Gospels scholarship, let alone the wider public. There is no convenient book-length treatment that can be used by students, or indeed by anyone else wishing to be informed about this crucial topic.

Behind the Gospels fills this gap, both by offering a general theoretical discussion of the nature of oral tradition and the formation of ancient texts, and by providing a critical survey of the field, from classical form-criticism down to the present day.

Author: Eric Eve
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 07/01/2014
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.06w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781451469400

About the Author
Eve, Eric: -

Eric Eve is fellow and tutor in theology at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and is the author of The Jewish Context of Jesus" Miracles (2002) and The Healer from Nazareth: Jesus" Miracles in Historical Context (2009).

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