Contents -- Abbreviations -- Social and Cultural Memory -- Jesus Tradition as Social Memory -- Christian Origins: Historical Truth and Social Memory -- Why John Wrote a Gospel: Memory and History in an Early Christian Community -- The Story of "the Woman Who Anointed Jesus" as Social Memory: A Methodological Proposal for the Study of Tradition as Memory -- The Locus for Death: Social Memory and the Passion Narratives -- Christian Collective Memory and Paul's Knowledge of Jesus -- Collective Memory and Hebrews 11: Outlining a New Investigative Framework -- Early Jewish Birth Prophecy Stories and Women's Social Memory -- The Memory of Violence and the Death of Jesus in Q -- Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a Repository of Early Christian Communal Memory -- The Works of Memory: Christian Origins as MnemoHistory-A Response -- Jesus in First-Century Memory-A Response -- Works Consulted -- Contributors.