Gedächtnistheorie und Neues Testament

With its innovative approach, the textbook opens up, for the first time, the findings of interdisciplinary research on memory and remembrance for the interpretation of the New Testament. Beyond the question of how it actually was, the texts of the New Testament are read not as historical reports, historiography, or eyewitness recollection, but as testimonies of early Christian identity-formation that owe their existence to social processes of negotiation. In addition to a foundational introduction to the basic concepts of cultural-studies memory theory, the book offers exemplary readings of New Testament texts as identity texts to which readers can connect with their own experiences, as well as an outlook on the potential of a cultural-studies exegesis.