Cognitive Science and the New Testament A New Approach to Early Christian Research

recall:“In the morning, however, he became very ill, and his friends gathered round [...]. Then he writhed and shrieked and his ...

three versions: the fever leaves the woman, who starts to serve the visitor(s). The three versions of the healing of Peter’s mot ...

indicate. In sum, scripts provide a memory structure, a summary of old experiences in terms of which new experience can be encod ...

solved some problems in orality studies, it also created new problems. Rather than imagining a storehouse of episodes in the sin ...

tells how the god Ammon appeared to Thutmose III, pharaoh of Egypt in the fifteenth centuryBCE, when he was still a humble pries ...

cohesion and theflexibility of the schemata. Scripts consist of elementary actions: the guest enters the restaurant; the waiter ...

4.5 SERIAL RECALL In the foregoing sections, we have mainly focused on the encoding and storage of biblical traditions. We will ...

limits the choice of the next word or phrase in such a way that results in a sufficiently close reproduction of the text (cue-it ...

memory in a chain-like fashion, until wefind the right words. The latter method is certainly needed when we have to recall a par ...

Memories of such unique events belong to the category ofepisodic memory. Other memories consist of items without reference to a ...

McIver (2011) drew on memory studies to examine the role of eyewitnesses in the origins of the Jesus tradition, both authors arg ...

significant event spend considerable time and energy on discussing and retelling it, which leads to the formation of memories th ...

passion narratives is evident from the history of Christian art, music, and literature. For example, Bach’sSt Matthew Passionand ...

cross-culturally attested, ontological categories include HUMAN, ANIMAL, PLANT, ARTIFACT, and (natural) OBJECT (see sections 1.3 ...

of a concept have to be kept to a minimum to facilitate successful retention in memory also holds for groups of concepts or larg ...

walls”or“a car that likes to watch movies”) whereas others did not (“a man who has no shadow”or“a car that is weightless”). Afte ...

broader scope of earliest Christian history than the (assumed) oral traditions behind the gospels. Ancient literacy in antiquity ...

Finally, the influence of memory reached beyond the oral transmission and composition of texts. Selective processes could effect ...

and the formation of the New Testament canon were heavily influenced by how we remember texts (cf. Czachesz & Theissen, 2016 ...

Testament came into being in the context of religious practice. Our materials (including literary sources and archeological data ...