March 1999 Volume 14, Number 1 : Hebrew Oral Traditions Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Orality and the Redaction of the Babylonian Talmud Yaakov Elman Oral Tradition in the Writings of Rabbinic Oral Torah: On Theorizing Rabbinic Orality Martin S. Jaffee Literary Composition and Oral Performance in Early Midrashim Steven D. Fraade The Fixing of the Oral Mishnah and the Displacement of Meaning Elizabeth Shanks Alexander Jewish Folk Literature Dan Ben-Amos Supplemental Materials About the Authors