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Contributions to the volume discuss methodological problems, analyze proposals made in previous research, and suggest new understandings of various aspects of the mission of Jesus.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52146409767185,"sku":"NLS9783161533358","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783161533358.jpg?v=1757597595"},{"product_id":"story-as-history-history-as-story-book-samuel-byrskog-9783161473050","title":"Story as History - History as Story","description":"From recent reviews: The book contains detailed and fascinating investigations of the methods of the ancient historians of Greece and Rome for the light they are claimed to shed upon those of the New Testament writers. Whenever an ancient source is quoted, not only is an English translation given in the text, but the original language of the example is also reproduced in a footnote. Fascinating also are the discussions of relevant passages in the New Testament such as Lk 1:1-4; Jn 19:35; 21:24; and 1 Jn 1:1-4.In this well-produced volume the author has reviewed a vast amount of ancient and modern literature on a subject of vital importance for assessing the historicity of the gospel tradition.John Tudno Williams in The Expository Times 2000 , vol. 112, p. 59 Erzahlung als Geschichte - Geschichte als Erzahlung. Die Evangelientradition im Rahmen der mundlichen Uberlieferung der Antike. Studienausgabe. Von Samuel Byrskog.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52147077906705,"sku":"NLS9783161473050","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783161473050.jpg?v=1757599335"},{"product_id":"the-identity-of-jesus-nordic-voices-book-samuel-byrskog-9783161522048","title":"The The Identity of Jesus: Nordic Voices","description":"Much of the Jesus scholarship has concentrated on the so-called self-identity of Jesus. However, due to the recent emphasis on the subjective perception and memory processes in the methodology of Jesus research, it is meaningful to re-conceptualize the question. The authors of this volume approach the question of the identity of Jesus from different angles. Viewpoints vary from that of comparative religion to the analysis of the narratives Jesus told, some key events of his life and existing identities of the first century Judaism. The overall aim in this collection of articles is to provide informative and updated perspectives on one of the most central questions of the research field. The papers given in the first Nordic Symposium of the Historical Jesus in Abo 2010 have been modified and collected to cover important aspects in the historical Jesus research.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52147463749905,"sku":"NLS9783161522048","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783161522048.jpg?v=1757600597"},{"product_id":"social-memory-and-social-identity-in-the-study-of-early-judaism-and-early-christ-book-samuel-byrskog-9783525593752","title":"Social Memory and Social Identity in the Study of Early Judaism and Early Christianity","description":"The concepts of social memory and social identity have been increasingly used in the study of ancient Jewish and Christian sources. In this collection of articles, international specialists apply interdisciplinary methodology related to these concepts to early Jewish and Christian sources. The volume offers an up-to-date presentation of how social memory studies and socio-psychological identity approach have been used in the study of Biblical and related literature. The articles examine how Jewish and Christian sources participate in the processes of collective recollection and in this way contribute to the construction of distinctive social identities. The writers demonstrate the benefits of the use of interdisciplinary methodologies in the study of early Judaism and Christianity but also discuss potential problems that have emerged when modern theories have been applied to ancient material.In the first part of the book, scholars apply social, collective and cultural memory approaches to early Christian sources. The articles discuss philosophical aspects of memory, the formation of gospel traditions in the light of memory studies, the role of eyewitness testimony in canonical and non-canonical Christian sources and the oral delivery of New Testament writings in relation to ancient delivery practices. Part two applies the social identity approach to various Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament writings. The writers analyse the role marriage, deviant behaviour, and wisdom traditions in the construction of identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Other topics include forgiveness in the Gospel of Matthew, the imagined community in the Gospel John, the use of the past in Paul's Epistles and the relationship between the covenant and collective identity in the Epistle to the Hebrews and the First Epistle of Clement.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52153859014929,"sku":"NGR9783525593752","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783525593752.jpg?v=1757622505"},{"product_id":"story-as-history-history-as-story-book-samuel-byrskog-9780391041660","title":"Story as History - History as Story","description":"Please note that this title is only available to customers in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNO\u003c\/b\u003e salesrights for Rest of World.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Samuel Byrskog employs models from the interdisciplinary field of oral history as presented by Paul Thompson, coupled with insights from cultural anthropology, in order to examine the interaction between the present and the past as the gospel tradition evolved. The ancient Greek and Roman historians, with their use of eyewitness testimony as sources to the past and as central elements in interpretive and narrativizing processes of the present, serve as the basis for unraveling culture-specific patterns of oral history, and thus for conceptualizing similar aspects during the development of the gospel tradition. Eyewitness testimonies played a central but varying role in early Christianity. They were transmitted in the matrix of discipleship, where verbal and behavioral traditions were passed on through acts of mimesis. The folkloristic notion of re-oralization explains how oral accounts regularly interacted with written texts, indicating a vivid and engaged relationship to the past as well as the semantic significance of oral communication and performance. Factual truth was essential but inseparable from interpreted truth during the course of investigation, transmission, and composition. The gospel tradition developed through a subtle interaction between the unique historic events of the past and the various circumstances of the present. The narrative and historical dimensions of a text cannot be separated, because the semantic codes of a text are often located in the culture and not in the text itself. The gospels are therefore the synthesis of history and story, intertwining the horizons of the past and of the present in their own right.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53451073585425,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53451074109713,"sku":"CIN0391041665VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780391041660.jpg?v=1776913232"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-samuel-byrskog.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}