The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX
Part i: Introduction: Speaking, Seeing,Writing in the Shaping
of New Genres
Susan Niditch
Hebrew Bible and Oral Literature:
Misconceptions and New Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Teun L. Tieleman
Orality and Writing in Ancient Philosophy:
Their Interrelationship and the Shaping of Literary Forms . . . . . . . . . . 19
Catherine Hezser
From Oral Conversations to Written Texts:
Randomness in the Transmission of Rabbinic Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Antoinette Clark Wire
Mark: News as Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Werner Kelber
The History of the Closure of Biblical Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Part ii: Speaking in the Shaping of New Genres
John Miles Foley
Plenitude and Diversity: Interactions between Orality and Writing . . . 103
Kristina Dronsch
Transmissions from Scripturality to Orality:
Hearing the Voice of Jesus in Mark 4:1–34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Ruben Zimmermann
Memory and Form Criticism: The Typicality of Memory
as a Bridge between Orality and Literality
in the Early Christian Remembering Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Richard A. Horsley
The Gospel of Mark in the Interface of Orality and Writing . . . . . . . . 144
David Rhoads
Performance Events in Early Christianity:
New Testament Writings in an Oral Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
David Trobisch
Performance Criticism as an Exegetical Method:
A Story, Three Insights, and Two Jokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Part iii: Seeing in the Shaping of New Genres
Kristina Dronsch and Annette Weissenrieder
A Theory of the Message for New Testament Writings
or Communicating the Words of Jesus:
From Angelos to Euangelion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
David L. Balch
Women Prophets/Maenads Visually Represented
in Two Roman Colonies: Pompeii and Corinth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Annette Weissenrieder
The Didactics of Images: The Fig Tree in Mark 11:12–14
and 20–21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Part iv:Writing in the Shaping of New Genres
Annette Schellenberg
A “lying pen of the scribes” (Jer 8:8)?
Orality and Writing in the Formation of Prophetic Books . . . . . . . . . . 285
Roger S. Nam
Writing Songs, Singing Songs: The Oral and the Written
in the Commission of the Levitical Singers (1 Chr 25:1–6) . . . . . . . . . . 310
Andreas Schuele
“Call on me in the day of trouble . . .” From Oral Lament
to Lament Psalms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Pieter J. J. Botha
“Publishing” a Gospel: Notes on Historical Constraints
to Gospel Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Daniel Boyarin
The Sovereignty of the Son of Man: Reading Mark 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Robert B. Coote
Scripture and the Writer of Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Holly Hearon
Mapping Written and Spoken Word in the Gospel of Mark . . . . . . . . . 379
Trevor W. Thompson
Writing in Character: Claudius Lysias to Felix
as a Double-Pseudepigraphon (Acts 23:26–30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
List of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Index of Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Index of Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429