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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...

Dunn, the impact of Bailey’s work on NT scholarship in general rivals Kelber’s (though Bailey’s work in no way compares to Kelber’s in terms of its volume or its sophistication).31 We have already begun to see that interest in biblical media criticism was picking up steam in the mid-1990s. Richard Horsley began to pay attention to issues of media as part of his developing interest in the ascendance of an explicitly literary criticism of NT texts (see Horsley 1994:1, 135).32 Horsley’s
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