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Bill Heroman has been posting<\/a> on the possibility of Matthew having taken notes about things that Jesus said and did during his public ministry. Since I\u2019ve been thinking quite a bit about orality and the Jesus tradition, I joined in the conversation. The subject of how common it was for notes to be taken by individuals in various circumstances (e.g. serving in a royal court as scribe, becoming the disciple of a rabbi, philosopher or other teacher, and so on) is an important one, but I notice a lot of \u201cpossibly\u201d and \u201ccould have\u201d in the list. I know other readers of my blog are interested in these subjects, and so do take a look if you have a chance.<\/div>\n
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