The Early Church as a Narrative Fellowship. An Exploratory Study of the Performance of the Chreia
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Summary, in English
The early Church was a narrative fellowship which narrativized the Jesus tradition and per-formed it from memory. It did so by using specific narrative and mnemonic forms of commu-nication. The chreia combines features of narrativity, oral performance, and memory and con-stituted a basic element of the narrative mosaic of the Church. The author of the Gospel of Mark indicates a broader pattern of narrative performance in that he introduces his narrative by combining the chreia with the diēgēma, demonstrating the rhetorical kind of narrativiza-tion that characterizes the Jesus tradition.
Department/s
Publishing year
2007
Language
English
Pages
207-226
Publication/Series
Tidsskrift for Teologi og Kirke
Volume
78
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Universitetsforlaget
Topic
- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Keywords
- the Gospel of Mark.
- diēgēma
- performance
- memory
- orality
- Narrativity
- chreia
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0040-7194