RT Article
T1 Memory and Narrative - and Time: Towards a Hermeneutics of Memory
JF Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
VO 16
IS 2/3
SP 108
OP 135
A1 Byrskog, Samuel 1957-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1683740556
AB This article seeks to develop the recent attention to memory by outlining a hermeneutical approach that links memory closely to philosophical reflections on referentiality, narrativity and temporality. From insights of modern and ancient theories of memory, the the present approach insists that memory is referential in that its images are held to derive from outside memory, that it is narrative in that it is believed to picture a socially conditioned reality, and that it is temporal in that it depends on time in order to navigate between the past and the present. This hermeneutical approach is form-critically and rhetorically relevant, because it becomes visible in the uses of forms taught in the Progymnasmata, especially in the attempt to present them with convincing clarity, as seen in the combination of two chreiai and one diegema Mark 1:29-39. Further study of the hermeneutics of memory will redirect our concept of history and reveal the extent to which memory served the early Christians in their search for existential meaning and identity.
K1 Aristotle
K1 Augustine
K1 Gospel of Mark
K1 Progymnasmata
K1 Chreia
K1 clarity
K1 diegema
K1 Early Christians
K1 Existence
K1 Form-criticism
K1 Memory
K1 Narrative
K1 Narrativity
K1 Philosophy
K1 referentiality
K1 Temporality
K1 Time
DO 10.1163/17455197-01602003