Jesus Tradition in the Apostolic Fathers: Their Explicit by Stephen E. Young

By Stephen E. Young

Stephen E. younger reevaluates the culture of Jesus' sayings within the Apostolic Fathers in mild of the turning out to be popularity of the effect of orality upon early Christianity. established upon study into oral culture performed within the wake of the pioneering paintings of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, he advances the thesis that an oral-traditional resource top explains the shape and content material of the categorical appeals to Jesus culture within the Apostolic Fathers that predate 2 Clement . He additionally attracts realization to ways that this practice informs our realizing of using oral culture in Christian antiquity.

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