Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity

Publisher Marketing: 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 Contributor Bio:  Draper, Jonathan A Jonathan A. Draper is Professor of New Testament in the School of Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.