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Social memory and the Didache.

From: Biblical Theology Bulletin  |  Date: 3/22/2006  |  Author: Williams, Ritva H.

This article explores the Didache as a written artifact of social memory documenting the socialization program of a particular network of Israelite Jesus people. Drawing on the work of sociologist Jeffrey Olick, I define more precisely his concepts of (a) memory genre as a mnemonic practice and/or image of the past that is available to a particular group at a specific moment in time, and (b) genre memory as the memory of previous commemorations: the ongoing discourse that occurs by ...

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