Oral and written communication and transmission of knowledge in ancient Judaism and Christianity

dc.contributor.author	Hezser, Catherine	eng
dc.date.issued	2010-03	eng
dc.description	Abstract In the following we shall investigate the forms and modes of communication reflected in Jewish and early Christian literary sources from the Roman period. We shall focus on Josephus, the New Testament, and rabbinic sources here. The various forms of communication and transmission of knowledge were always context-specific, serving the respective individuals and groups to reach their particular goals. Communication among early Christians was closely linked to the empire-wide expansion of Christianity. In the case of rabbis, communication with distant colleagues helped to establish a province-wide decentralized rabbinic network, which would eventually be able to collect and transmit traditions to later generations of scholars in both the Land of Israel and the Diaspora.	eng
dc.description	Issue title: Oral Tradition in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.	eng
dc.format.extent	18 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 25/1 (2010): 75-92.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65206
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Oral and written communication and transmission of knowledge in ancient Judaism and Christianity	eng
dc.type	Article	eng