Jesus, the Voice, and the Text

Tom Thatcher is Professor of Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University.

Jesus, the Voice, and the Text is enlightening and easily accessible to scholars of religion and the casual reader alike. -Martin S. Jaffee, Samuel and Althea Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies, Comparative Religion, & International Studies, University of Washington

• Beyond Texts and Traditions: Werner Kelber's Media History of Christian Origins - Tom Thatcher""It's Not Easy to Take a Fresh Approach"": Reflections on The Oral and Written Gospel (An Interview with Werner Kelber) - Werner Kelber and Tom ThatcherOral Performance and Mark: Some Implications of The Oral and the Written Gospel, Twenty-Five Years Later- Richard A. HorsleyThe Gospel of Mark as Oral Hermeneutic - Joanna DeweyStorytelling in Oral and Written Media Contexts of the Ancient Mediterranean World - Holly E. HearonVice Catalogues as Oral-Mnemonic Cues: A Comparative Study of the Two Ways Tradition in the Didache and Parallels from the Perspective of Oral Tradition - Jonathan DraperHuman Memory and the Sayings of Jesus: Contemporary Experimental Exercises in the Transmission of Jesus Traditions - April D. DeConickThe Gospel of Trajan - Arthur J. DeweyThe Scar of the Cross: The Violence Ratio and the Earliest Christian Memories of Jesus - Chris Keith and Tom ThatcherManuscript Tradition as a Tertium Quid: Orality and Memory in Scribal Practices - Alan KirkThe Oral-Scribal-Memorial Arts of Communication in Early Christianity - Werner H. KelberNotesWorks CitedContributors