Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating Jesus Traditions - Hardcover

Elder, Nicholas A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802879217 ISBN 13: 9780802879219

Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2024

Synopsis

Contextualizing the gospels in ancient Greco-Roman media practices

New Testament scholars have often relied on outdated assumptions for understanding the composition and circulation of the gospels. This scholarship has spread myths or misconceptions about how the ancients read, wrote, and published texts.  
 
Nicholas Elder updates our knowledge of the gospels' media contexts in this myth-busting academic study. Carefully combing through Greco-Roman primary sources, he exposes what we take for granted about ancient reading cultures and offers new and better ways to understand the gospels. These myths include claims that ancients never read silently and that the canonical gospels were all the same type of text. Elder then sheds light on how early Christian communities used the gospels in diverse ways. Scholars of the gospels and classics alike will find Gospel Media an essential companion in understanding ancient media cultures.

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About the Author

Nicholas Elder is assistant professor of New Testament at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is also the author of The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative.

Edition details

• Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802879217
• ISBN 13: 9780802879219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344