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In Behind the Gospels, Eric Eve provides a critical introduction to a major storm center of debate in New Testament studies: oral tradition and memory theory. Eve gives both a helpful survey of the scholarly literature and original proposals for clarifying and advancing our understanding of these key issues. He explores the media contrast model, the rabbinic model, informal controlled oral...

time for critical reflection on what is being said. Once it is over, it is no longer directly available for reflection. To the extent that it lives on at all, it lives on only in memory (where, to be sure, it can be critically assessed after the event if it has been sufficiently well remembered). Third, what is remembered of speech will vary depending on a whole host of factors, but one is most unlikely to remember every word spoken in a lengthy conversation or performance. What may stick in memory
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