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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...

for the written word, late Western antiquity retained an “essential orality … demonstrated both in the manner by which literature was produced and in the manner in which it was read. Both were predominantly, indeed exclusively, oral” (12). That is, literature was produced by dictation,16 and it was read by recitation17 (see 12–17). Achtemeier has made his point too strongly, and we will have to undo some of his influence over NT media criticism. A number of studies since 1990 have presented serious
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