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The effect of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

Published on: Author: tmcmill4@uoregon.edu

From the readings in White on Orality, Memory, and Performance scholars have inferred that when telling stories about Jesus that the story tellers had a basic outline but improvised the details according to the performer and the audience. The texts were primarily always meant to be heard never read. Knowing this when analyzing the telling… Continue reading

Death and Resurrection

Published on: Author: hstern@uoregon.edu

There are many clues in this text (1 corinthians 15:3-7) that show that it is derived from oral tradition. White states that this passage uses something known as staccato parallelism; where every step in the sentences uses a single verb. For example “he died, he was raised, and he appeared.” This was a characteristic of oral… Continue reading

Death & Resurrection

Published on: Author: hayleigh@uoregon.edu

In the book Scripting Jesus, L. Michael White compares the accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus within the gospels to other New Testament writings. He focuses on 1 Corinthians 15:3-7 as an example of the part oral tradition played in the writing of the gospels. The use of the phrase “in accordance with… Continue reading