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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