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Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark is unavailable, but you can change that!

Before the written Gospel there was—what? Previous thinking regarding “oral tradition” imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would constitute what we know as the end result, the written Gospels. That picture—and the implicit understanding of the Gospel writers as “editors”—has changed. The groundbreaking work gathered in this volume...

Jan Assmann Benedict Anderson defined nations as “imagined communities,” implying that there are communities that are not imagined but based on some kind of “hard” essential reality such as family, clan, tribe, and so forth.1 On closer reflection, however, it becomes clear that all communities or, to be more precise, all collective identities are imagined. It is not “blood” or “descent” as such that keeps a group together but the shared
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