Abstract
Gospels scholarship still works with conceptions of memory, long abandoned by those who study in its social, cognitive, and cultural aspects. The form critics equated with individual eye-witness recollection. Social analysis, therefore, hardly amounts to drawing naive correspondences between memory and history. Rather, it provides a research framework for assessing the origins and transformations of the gospel tradition in terms of the constitutive orientation of the Jesus - communities to a commemorated past. Another cognitive operation performed by is conventionalization or schematization . Oral tradition can be arranged in culture-specific genre typologies. This chapter shows that forms the undifferentiated streams of experience into conventional patterns, scripts, and types. The gospels (particularly Mark and Q) as oral-derived texts are artifacts of this crisis of triggered by generational succession in the Jesus movement. Memory theory does not offer facile solutions to the historiographical challenges of Jesus research. Keywords:commemoration; form critic; gospel tradition; Jesus; theory; memory's cognitive operation; oral tradition; social
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