The Jesus Blog: Bultmann, Jens Schröter, and Facebook

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Bultmann, Jens Schröter, and Facebook - Le Donne

It was not long ago that I was a Facebook persecutor. Oh, wretched man that I am! I thought that Facebook was for people who were too lazy, afraid, or ashamed to live their lives in the real world. Now I know that I was quite right, but Facebook can - at rare moments - be quite helpful.

Consider this thread initiated by Chris Tilling today:

I have heard multiple critiques recently that NT applications of Social Memory do not do much more than echo Form Critical premises. Paul Foster's recent essay in JSHJ makes this claim. Kudos to Chris Tilling for reaching out and asking the question before he came to any definitive conclusions. Scholarship is best when it is proactively conversant. I have been quite surprised at how much scholarship is happening via social media. I have seen the light.

-anthony

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AnonymousOctober 10, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Yes. FB, for all its faults, allows the kind of conversation that you'd have in a departmental tea room, whereas blogs are more formal.
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Anthony Le DonneOctober 10, 2013 at 1:40 PM
Very good analogy Judy. Thanks.

-anthony
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Chris TillingOctober 10, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Yes, thanks for your help earlier on, truly I give thanks for people like you on Facebook at time like this!
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James Crossley (PhD, Nottingham) is Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London. In addition to most things historical Jesus, his interests typically concern Jewish law and the Gospels, the social history of biblical scholarship, and the reception of the Bible in contemporary politics and culture. He is co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Christine Jacobi studied protestant theology and art history in Berlin and Heidelberg. She is research associate at the chair of exegesis and theology of the New Testament and apocryphal writings. She completed her dissertation at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014. She is the author of Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus? Analogien zwischen den echten Paulusbriefen und den synoptischen Evangelien (BZNW 213), Berlin: de Gruyter 2015. Christine Jacobi is a member of the „August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum“ and the „Berliner Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften“.

Chris Keith (PhD, Edinburgh) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.

Anthony Le Donne (PhD, Durham) is Associate Professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary. He is the author/editor of seven books. He is the co-founder of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts Consultation and the co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Brant Pitre (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Among other works, he is the author of Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile (Mohr-Siebeck/Baker Academic, 2005), and Jesus and the Last Supper (Eerdmans, 2015). He is particularly interested in the relationship between Jesus, Second Temple Judaism, and Christian origins.

Rafael Rodríguez (PhD, Sheffield) is Professor of New Testament at Johnson University. He has published a number of books and essays on social memory theory, oral tradition, the Jesus tradition, and the historical Jesus, as well as on Paul and Pauline tradition. He also serves as co-chair of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Bultmann, Jens Schröter, and Facebook - Le Donne

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