The Gospel as Manuscript: The Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact Author: Chris Keith Retail Price: $95.00 Our Price: $56.49 Save: 38.51 (40.54%) Availability: In Stock        'But the Bible says' is a common enough refrain in many conversations about Christianity. The written verses of the four canonical Gospels are sometimes volleyed back and forth and taken as fact while the apocryphal and oral accounts of the life of Jesus are taken as mere oddities. Early thinkers inside and outside the community of Jesus-followers similarly described a contentious relationship between the oral and the written, though they often focused on the challenges of trusting the written word over the spoken. Nevertheless, the written accounts of the Jesus tradition in the Gospels have taken a far superior position in the Christian faith to any oral tradition. In The Gospel as Manuscript, Chris Keith offers a new material history of the Jesus tradition's journey from voice to page, showing that the introduction of manuscripts played an underappreciated, but crucial, role in the reception history of the gospel. From the textualization of Mark in the first century CE until the eventual usage of liturgical readings as a marker of authoritative status in the second and third centuries, early followers of Jesus placed the gospel-as-manuscript on display by drawing attention to the written nature of their tradition. Similar Items you may enjoy! The Common Tradition Behind Synoptic Sayings of Judgment and John's Apocalypse: An Oral Interpretive Tradition of Old Testament Prophetic Material Author: Paul T. Penley Our Price: $58.69 The Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Peter: A Tradition-Historical Study of the Akhm?Gospel Fragment Author: Jeremiah J. Johnston Our Price: $59.94 Jesus and the Oral Gospel Tradition Author: Henry Wansborough Our Price: $150.00 Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Author: Birger Gerhardsson Our Price: $40.95

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