Werner H. Kelber
Werner H. Kelber is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Rice University. His work has focused on oral tradition, gospel narrativity, biblical hermeneutics, the historical Jesus, orality-scribality studies, memory, rhetoric, text criticism, and the media history of the Bible. His major work, The Oral and the Written Gospel (1997), examines points and processes of oral-scribal transition in the early Jewish-Christian tradition.
Articles by Werner H. Kelber
The Authority of the Word in St. John’s Gospel: Charismatic Speech, Narrative Text, Logocentric Metaphysics
Volume 2, Issue 1 (January, 1987)Language, Memory, and Sense Perception in the Religious and Technological Culture of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Volume 10, Issue 2 (October, 1995)The Case of the Gospels: Memory’s Desire and the Limits of Historical Criticism
Volume 17, Issue 1 (March, 2002)Oral Tradition in Bible and New Testament Studies
Volume 18, Issue 1 (March, 2003)Oral Tradition in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Introduction
Volume 25, Issue 1 (March, 2010)The History of the Closure of Biblical Texts
Volume 25, Issue 1 (March, 2010)
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