Tom Parker is Pastor at Chesterfield Community Church. His PhD, completed at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, focused on the use of the Old Testament in Hebrews, James and 1-2 Peter. His previous publications include Teaching 2 Peter (2023), as well as several journal articles.

By deftly interweaving scholarship on oral tradition, social memory theory and the use of the Old Testament in the New with careful exegesis of key passages in four major non-Pauline epistles, Parker argues that in place of the thesis of scripturalization (namely that much of the Jesus tradition developed out of early Christian appropriation of the Old Testament) we should instead trace the various ways in which Jesus' own use of the Jewish Scriptures impacted on early Christian oral tradition, social memory, and written texts. In doing so, Parker provides a valuable contribution to the debates over the development of the Jesus tradition and, potentially, the historical Jesus.

• Abbreviations and QuotationsIntroduction1. Orality, Scripturalisation and Mnemonic Keying2. Hebrews and the Son's Speaking of the Scriptures3. James, Q and Mnemonic Keying4. The First Epistle of Peter and Scripturalisation5. The Second Epistle of Peter and the Primacy of Jesus6. Conclusions and SuggestionsEpilogueBibliographyIndex of Passages from Ancient TextsIndex of Passages from Ancient Texts

Tom Parker is Pastor at Chesterfield Community Church. His PhD, completed at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, focused on the use of the Old Testament in Hebrews, James and 1-2 Peter. His previous publications include Teaching 2 Peter (2023), as well as several journal articles.

By deftly interweaving scholarship on oral tradition, social memory theory and the use of the Old Testament in the New with careful exegesis of key passages in four major non-Pauline epistles, Parker argues that in place of the thesis of scripturalization (namely that much of the Jesus tradition developed out of early Christian appropriation of the Old Testament) we should instead trace the various ways in which Jesus' own use of the Jewish Scriptures impacted on early Christian oral tradition, social memory, and written texts. In doing so, Parker provides a valuable contribution to the debates over the development of the Jesus tradition and, potentially, the historical Jesus.

• Abbreviations and QuotationsIntroduction1. Orality, Scripturalisation and Mnemonic Keying2. Hebrews and the Son's Speaking of the Scriptures3. James, Q and Mnemonic Keying4. The First Epistle of Peter and Scripturalisation5. The Second Epistle of Peter and the Primacy of Jesus6. Conclusions and SuggestionsEpilogueBibliographyIndex of Passages from Ancient TextsIndex of Passages from Ancient Texts