“Not only were people to be liberated from socio-political and economic oppression, but from theological oppression as well.” TranslationContextualizationOrality Author:James A. Maxey
“Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.” TruthMemoryOrality Book:Book of a Thousand Days Source: Book of a Thousand Days
“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’ we accused it of being; it never was the primitive, preliminary technology of communication we thought it had to be. Rather, if the whole truth is told, oral tradition stands out as the single most dominant communicative technology of our species, as both a historical fact and, in many areas still, a contemporary reality. The miracle of the flat inscribable surface and Gutenberg’s genius aside, even the electronic revolution cannot challenge the long-term preeminence of the oral tradition. ("Introduction" by John Foley)” HistoryCommunicationPrimitiveLiteracyOral TraditionOrality Book:Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and its Influence in the Greek and Roman World Source: Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and its Influence in the Greek and Roman World