This volume brings together scholars of classical and biblical antiquity and scholars of African oral culture to address the relationship between orality and literacy in colonized people in antiquity.
Along with colonialism in Africa came the Bible and text-based literacy, which was monitored by missionaries and government authorities. In contrast, oral traditions remained outside the bounds of col
This collection in English of important modern articles on the Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), including an extensive review of scholarship over the past fifty years, provides a valuable re