Memory Theory in New Testament Studies: Exploring New Perspectives

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Title: Memory Theory in New Testament Studies: Exploring New Perspectives

Publisher： Brill Schöningh

Author： Sandra Huebenthal

Synopsis

This book collects ten of Sandra Huebenthal's most important contributions to the application of Social Memory Theory in Biblical studies.

The volume consists of four parts, each devoted to a particular field of research. Part one addresses the general impact of Social Memory Theory for the New Testament. The second part analyzes how Social Memory Theory adds to exploring the phenomenon of (biblical) intertextuality as a strategy for negotiating Early Christian identity and the third part investigates how New Testament pseudepigraphy provides a different approach for understanding the negotiation and formation of Christian identities. Finally, part four provides an outlook how the hermeneutical approach can enhance Patristic research. The ten essays originate from discussions about Social Memory Theory and the New Testament at international conferences, three of them are translations of German contributions, while two are published for the first time in this volume.

About the author

Sandra Huebenthal studied philosophy and theology at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology (PTH Sankt Georgen) in Frankfurt am Main from 1994 to 1999. In 1996/97, she spent a year studying at the Milltown Institute for Theology and Philosophy in Dublin . From 1997 to 2000, she studied Jewish Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt . At PTH Sankt Georgen, she pursued doctoral studies in New Testament exegesis from 1999 to 2005.

After working as a research assistant in the Department of New Testament Exegesis and Theology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, she taught religion at the Ludwig Erhard School in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach from 2006 to 2008. In 2007, she accepted a teaching and research position in Biblical Theology at RWTH Aachen University . From 2010 to 2013, she participated in a DFG-funded research project on the Gospel of Mark. In 2013, she completed her habilitation and received the venia legendi (authorization to teach) in New Testament studies. This was followed by visiting professorships in New Testament studies at the University of Basel (2014) and at the University of St Andrews in Scotland (2014/15).

In 2015, she accepted a professorship in Exegesis and Biblical Theology at the University of Passau . She is the editor of the series Studies in the Cultural Context of the Bible (Brill Schöningh).

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