Table of Contents:
  • Orality, literacy, and colonialism in antiquity / Jonathan A. Draper
  • Essays
  • Indigenous poems, colonialist texts / John Miles Foley
  • Cognition, orality-literacy, and approaches to first-century writings / Pieter J.J. Botha
  • Moving beyond colonialist discourse : understanding oral theory and cultural difference in the context of media analysis / J.A. "Bobby" Loubser
  • Why did Plato write? / Jean-Luc Solère
  • Mithra's cult : an example of religious colonialism in Roman times? / Baudouin Decharneux
  • The origins of the Hebrew scriptures in imperial relations / Richard A. Horsley
  • Roman imperialism and early Christian scribality / Werner H. Kelber
  • Practicing the presence of God in John : ritual use of scripture and the Eidos Theou in John 5:37 / Jonathan A. Draper
  • Responses
  • Rabbinic oral tradition in late Byzantine Galilee : Christian empire and rabbinic ideological resistance / Martin S. Jaffee
  • Oralities, literacies, and colonialisms in antiquity and contemporary scholarship / Claudia V. Camp.