tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post2765505296376492626..comments2024-03-19T00:26:30.753-07:00Comments on The Jesus Blog: Christine Jacobi’s "Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus?" reviewed in RBL—Chris KeithAnthony Le Donnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-78948141254524776032016-12-16T10:37:23.084-08:002016-12-16T10:37:23.084-08:00Thank you, Chris! And of course, many thanks to Ka...Thank you, Chris! And of course, many thanks to Kari Syreeni!<br /><br />I would like to take up the question about Bultmann in this review. Is my argument essentially much else than the Bultmannian line of reasoning? <br /><br />I remember – although it was a stressful situation and my recollection might be distorted on that point ;-) – that somebody asked a similar question during the defense of my thesis. <br /> <br />I admire Bultmann for his distinction between “synoptic tradition” and “Jesus tradition”, thus opening our eyes for a productive, creative period within early Christianity. I disagree (like many scholars) with his conception of how the synoptic tradition developed. I am not convinced that the tradition existed in strata or layers that can be uncovered again by modern scholarship. This criticism is not new. <br /><br />But how can we actually envisage the development of the Jesus (or rather: synoptic) tradition? To me it seems plausible that during an early phase of orientation the followers of Jesus and early Christians started to interpret the whole “Jesus event” as such. They referred to his earthly activity, his death and his appearance as the risen Lord in expressions like "in the Lord", "in Christ" etc., and they used the Christ event like a hermeneutical key for common, already well-known and accepted ethical and “religious” convictions. The “Christ event” shed new light on shared values and traditions. This phenomenon is what I would label with the term “memory”: A creative, flexible way of processing tradition, material, motifs and ideas by new experiences. Thus, “Jesus tradition” in a strict sense (the words and deeds of Jesus) is on the one hand something that was remembered and handed down, and on the other hand something that was absorbed into a new, unique “Christian” perspective.<br />Christine Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05173501626371477048noreply@blogger.com