Living voice and lifeless letters: Reserve towards writing in the Graeco-Roman world
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Living voice and lifeless letters: Reserve towards writing in the Graeco-Roman world | |
| Creator | Botha, P. J.J. | |
| Description | This study contributes to the understanding of communication in antiquity by analysing a few specific references to oral and literate traditions in Hellenistic and Christian texts. In the Graeco-Roman world we find a surprising widespread reticence towards writing, varying from mere indifference to active scepticism. The scribal culture of antiquity exhibits a strong bias towards orality, with even literates expressing little confidence in writing. There was a prevailing preference for the ‘living voice’ in education, and a strong belief that corpora of teaching which were never written down, and could not be written down, distinguished the insiders from the outsiders. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1993-01-13 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v49i4.2519 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 49, No 4 (1993); 742-759 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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