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"Bringing together thirteen talks given at the international conference ""Memory and Memories in Early Christianity"", held at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva in June 2016, this interdisciplinary volume explores a fresh problem in the study of the origins of Christianity and of the New Testament, namely the ""work of memory"" undertaken in the discourses and practices of the believers in Jesus. The studies collected here not only apply a heuristic analytical tool - ""social memory theory"" - to the literature and history of Christian beginnings, but also endeavour to show the socio-religious resonance of this ""work of memory"" in the language and ideology of the early believers. The historical Jesus, the Pauline writings, the Gospel of John, the Acts of the Apostles, Marcion, ancient Christian epistolography, Hegesippus, Irenaeus, etc. are explored by some of the world's top specialists in ""social memory studies"" as applied to Christian origins."

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Born 1980; since 2014 tenure-track Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Traditions at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Born 1952; Doctor of Classical Philology (University of Pisa) and of Theology (University of Geneva); professor emeritus of History and Literature of Early Christianity at the University of Geneva and invited professor at the Facultad de Literatura Cristiana y Clásica San Justino (Madrid).

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