Jesus, the voice, and the text : beyond The oral and written Gospel / Tom Thatcher, editor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and indexes.

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 the written Gospel (an interview with Werner Kelber) / Werner H. Kelber and Tom Thatcher -- Oral performance and Mark : some implications of The oral and the written Gospel, twenty-five years later / Richard A. Horsley -- The Gospel of Mark as oral hermeneutic / Joanna Dewey -- Storytelling in oral and written media contexts of the ancient Mediterranean world / Holly A. Hearon -- Vice 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 A. Draper -- Human memory and the sayings of Jesus : contemporary experimental exercises in the transmission of Jesus traditions / April D. DeConick -- The Gospel of Trajan / Arthur J. Dewey -- The scar of the cross : the violence ratio and the earliest Christian memories of Jesus / Chris Keith and Tom Thatcher -- Manuscript tradition as a tertium quid : orality and memory in scribal practices / Alan Kirk -- The oral-scribal-memorial arts of communication in early Christianity / Werner H. Kelber