Title: Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus
Description: "Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice in the first century."
Subjects: Christians, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Church history, Books and reading, Primitive and early church