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Category Archives: Literacy & Orality
Craig Evans on Literacy in Jesus’ Time
CRAIG EVANS PART 2 JESUS AND HIS WORLD (23:52) from St. John’s Nottingham. Craig Evans deals with the question, “Was Jesus literate?” Evans mentions the city dump at the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus which has turned up half a million documents. Larry … Continue reading
Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Synagogues « Reading Acts
Philo indicates the primary purpose for going to the synagogue was to study scripture. via Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Synagogues « Reading Acts.
Craig Keener » Can we trust the disciples to have remembered Jesus’ teachings correctly?
Bible Background » Can we trust the disciples to have remembered Jesus’ teachings correctly? (by Craig Keener; video 6:32)
Michael Kruger on 10 Misconceptions about the NT Canon: #8: “Early Christianity was an Oral Religion and Therefore Would Have Resisted Writing Things Down” | Canon Fodder
In this post Michael Kruger says: the lack of literacy is not the same thing as the lack of textuality. See Kruger’s full post at 10 Misconceptions about the NT Canon: #8: “Early Christianity was an Oral Religion and Therefore Would … Continue reading
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Porter and Dyer Take on Witherington « Orchard Keeper
This post provides a counter weight to Ben Witherington’s emphasis on orality, at the expense of emphasizing literacy, in New Testament times. Obviously, we see elements of both in the New Testament documents and it’s wise to keep them both … Continue reading
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Christian Apologetics UK: Oral Tradition, the Gospels and Justin Bieber
Christian Apologetics UK: Oral Tradition, the Gospels and Justin Bieber.
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A Look at Oral Tradition/The Orality Phase of the Jesus Story « Ratio Christi-At The Ohio State University
A Look at Oral Tradition/The Orality Phase of the Jesus Story « Ratio Christi-At The Ohio State University.
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A Look at Oral Tradition/The Orality Phase of the Jesus Story « Ratio Christi-At The Ohio State University
A Look at Oral Tradition/The Orality Phase of the Jesus Story « Ratio Christi-At The Ohio State University.
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Are the New Testament Documents Histories or Primary Sources?
Actually, the best way for the New Testament documents to be understood by, and useful to, citizens of the 21st Century is to recognize that they were not written to or for us. Nor were any of them written to … Continue reading
Earliest Christianity Was Not a Literary Enterprise
The apostles did not hire literary agents so that they might become best-selling authors of the story of Messiah. By most scholarly accounts, the first writing of the apostles that we have was written 15 to 20 years after the … Continue reading
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