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The last three decades have seen an explosion of biblical scholarship on the presence and consequences of the oral expression of tradition among Jesus’ followers, especially in the earliest decades of the Common Era. However, this scholarship is abstract and technical and, to date, no introductory discussion exists to introduce students to these complex issues being discussed at higher levels of...

Since the beginning of her publishing career, Joanna Dewey has consistently focused on the structure of Mark’s Gospel (see Dewey 1973, 1980). In 1989, she began focusing on the structure of Mark’s Gospel in light of its oral composition and reception. In direct response to the thesis that Mark’s Gospel amounts to a “textually induced eclipse of voices and sound” (Kelber 1983:91), Dewey argues that “Mark as a whole—not just its individual episodes—shows the legacy of orality, indeed that
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