Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781589831315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 252 str.

Jonathan A. Draper

Opis

Religious scholars take up various questions relating to the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of colonized people in antiquity, and explore the role of orality in relation to this hegemony. Among the topics are theoretical and methodological foundations, Mithra's cult as an example of religious colonialism in Roman times, th