ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 develops the methodology of a memory approach and examines some of the implications of a memory approach to Paul's understanding of Jesus' resurrection in First Corinthians. There were about two decades between the events surrounding Jesus' resurrection and the recording of those events in First Corinthians. The memory of those events was frequently rehearsed, perhaps weekly. The transmission of the oral tradition occurred in various ways, including the overlooked fourth model—“formal uncontrolled.” Consideration is given to an examination of the philosophy and psychology of memory (including past and new research on (1) the constructive nature of memory, (2) presentism and continuism, (3) social memory, (4) transience and forgetting curves, (5) absent-mindedness, (6) blocking, (7) misattribution, (8) persistence, (9) schemata, (10) memory distortion, (11) false memories, (12) suggestibility, (13) the social contagion of memory, (14) hindsight bias, and (15) personal event memory and flashbulb memory). In addition, this is the first New Testament study to consider the insights for a memory approach from the philosophical considerations of (1) forgetting and (2) the theories of remembering and from the psychological studies on (1) memory conformity, (2) memory and age, and (3) the effects of health on memory.
