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The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media is a convenient and authoritative reference tool, introducing specific terms and concepts helpful to the study of the Bible and related literature in ancient communications culture. Since the early 1980s, biblical scholars have begun to explore the potentials of interdisciplinary theories of oral tradition, oral performance, personal and collective...

communicative GENRES that are drawn from a cultural repertoire of genres that have been learnt through socialization. Memory therefore is bound to cultural media and forms; it is the shaping of memory upon the lineaments of these media and forms that renders it communicable and externalizes it into the social sphere. Moreover, it is in the course of sharing and rehearsing memories in the groups for which they hold pertinence, that is, in commemorative remembering, that the standardized forms of a
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