The cultures of the Bible were oral cultures, with only about ten percent literacy at most. In such a culture, texts function differently: they are surrogates for or prompts of oral communication. In this lecture, Ben Witherington II will examine the ramifications of this fact for the study of the New Testament. This was part […]
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