Gratitude and Comments to Le Donne

This short response to Le Donne’s rebuttal attempts to return the conversation to the more relevant and troubling evidence of manufactured memory, by drawing attention to examples from the New Testament. It raises the serious question: if manufactured memories and historical memories are not qualita...

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Published in:Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Main Author: Crook, Zeba A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Further subjects:B Collective Memory gospel reliability historical Jesus invented memory memory memory distortion
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:This short response to Le Donne’s rebuttal attempts to return the conversation to the more relevant and troubling evidence of manufactured memory, by drawing attention to examples from the New Testament. It raises the serious question: if manufactured memories and historical memories are not qualitatively different, then how are we to distinguish between them? And, by extension, what does this say about the reliability of memory and the gospels as memory?
ISSN:1745-5197
Contains:In: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455197-01101006