Season 3: Episode 83
What Is “Ancient Media Culture”?
Date Aired: 10/14/2024
In the first century, very few people “read” the Hebrew scriptures. Instead, they were “heard”—read aloud (or performed) in the synagogue and other spaces. In this episode, Katrin Williams joins Helen and Dave to discuss “ancient media culture,” the different ways that people consumed biblical texts in the time of Jesus, and how literacy, orality and “aurality” were in constant conversation.
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