From: Maggie Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 02:42:06 BST
Thank you, Sam. Good starting point.
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 05:49 PM, Elizaphanian wrote:
<snip> they all describe various events in Jesus'
> life, particularly stories about healing, and include passages of
> Jesus'
> teaching, often in parables; they all describe Jesus' subsequent trial
> and
> crucifixion, and then conclude with an account of the resurrection;
> importantly, they are all anonymous.
"anonymous" to most people today simply implies that no one claims the
writing.
I think it's significant that the gospels have an an identity that is
very different than "anonymous." Rather than being claimed by
no-one, they were claimed, owned, created by a large number of people.
These works were "preached," long before they were recorded, and
preaching, at its best (as it probably was in early Christianity) is a
unique form of group communication that has very high awareness of
community (shared language, meanings that are repeated, filtered,
condensed and refined into the language of prayer and chant) and at the
same time has a very high infusion of individuality and intellect,
evidenced by the leadership of particular people using (at the time of
the early Christians) the new techniques of Greek intellectualism.
maggie
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