Apostolic tradition and the form of the Gospel (1985)
Interpretation of narrative and narrative as interpretation : hermeneutical reflections on the Gospels (1987)
Narrative and disclosure : mechanisms of concealing, revealing, and reveiling (1988)
In the beginning were the words : the apotheosis and narrative displacement of the logos (1990)
Jesus and tradition : words in time, words in space (1994)
Language, memory, and sense perception in the religious and technological culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages (1995)
The oral and the written Gospel : fourteen years afterward (1997)
Memory's desire of the ordeal of remembering : Judaism and Christianity (2000-2001)
Geschichte als Kommunikationsgeschichte : Überlegungen zur Medienwissenschaft (2004)
On the history of the quest, or : the reduction of polyvalency to single sense (2004)
The works of memory : Christian origins as mnemohistory (2005)
Orality and biblical scholarship : seven case studies (2007)
Memory and violence, or : genealogies of remembering (in memory of Edith Wyschogrod) (2009)
The work of Birger Gerhardsson in perspective (2009)
The history of the closure of biblical texts (2010)
The work of Walter J. Ong and biblical scholarship (2011).