Summation
William Graham
My response to the conference focuses on five issues: (1) the importance of the reciprocity and interdependence of orality and…
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From Jāhiliyyah to Badīciyyah: Orality, Literacy, and the Transformations of Rhetoric in Arabic Poetry
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Starting with the mnemonic imperative governing the use of rhetoric in pre- and early Islamic Arabic oral poetry, this essay…
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The Constitution of the Koran as a Codified Work: Paradigm for Codifying Hadîth and the Islamic Sciences?
Gregor Schoeler
It was on practical grounds that the initial inscription of both Koran and hadîth (as well as most of the…
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Biblical Performance Criticism: Performance as Research
David Rhoads
The purpose of this paper is to explore the New Testament as performance literature. Recent scholarship has brought to the…
Two Faces of the Qur’ān: Qur’ān and Muṣḥaf
Angelika Neuwirth
The Qur’ān is usually read as a canonical text, constituting the foundational document of the Islamic religion. This paper proposes…
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The History of the Closure of Biblical Texts
Werner H. Kelber
This paper examines the history of the biblical texts from their oral and papyrological beginnings to their triumphant apotheosis in…
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Oral and Written Aspects of the Emergence of the Gospel of Mark as Scripture
Richard A. Horsley
How the Gospel of Mark, which would not have qualified as a “respectable” text in the Hellenistic-Roman world, became included…
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Oral and Written Communication and Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Catherine Hezser
This paper examines the contexts of oral communication and the use of written messages in Josephus’ writings, the New Testament,…
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The Interplay Between Written and Spoken Word in the Second Testament as Background to the Emergence of Written Gospels
Holly Hearon
Although comprised of self-consciously written texts, the New Testament reflects an intersection between oral and written words and worlds. In…
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Guarding Oral Transmission: Within and Between Cultures
Talya Fishman
A 1997 claim that “Muslim hostility to the writing of tradition” was of “Jewish origin” stimulated this article’s attempt to…
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Torah on the Heart: Literary Jewish Textuality Within Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
David M. Carr
This essay examines evidence for the interplay of memory recall and written technology in ancient Israel and surrounding cultures. The…
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Response from an Africanist Scholar
Ruth Finnegan
Coming from a background of comparative work on orality and literacy but a non-specialist on the scriptures of Judaism, Christianity,…
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Oral Tradition in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Introduction
Paula Sanders, Werner H. Kelber
The present issue of Oral Tradition stands as a tribute to a conference initiated and convened by professors Werner Kelber…
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