Return to Orality?

Stephen Chrisomalis and Mark Dingemanse both respond to the notion that our society shows evidence of a return to orality. It is certainly far more common now than it was a couple of decades ago for people to listen to a book in the car or on their ipod. But one doesn’t have to go back much further than that and weekly radio shows provided a similar sort of aural presentation of narrative. In short, we are certainly witnessing changes in media culture and use, but not in a way that will make it easier to answer questions about orality and the New Testament, of the sort that April DeConick, Mark Goodacre and NT Wrong have been discussing.

Speaking of changing media, Danny Zacharias has a music video on YouTube to help you learn the Greek first declension paradigm.