In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor’s Column

Werner Kelber, Paula Sanders
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Response from an Africanist Scholar

Ruth Finnegan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402420
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Torah on the Heart: Literary Jewish Textuality Within Its Ancient Near Eastern Context

David Carr
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402422
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Guarding Oral Transmission: Within and Between Cultures

Talya Fishman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402423
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The Interplay Between Written and Spoken Word in the Second Testament as Background to the Emergence of Written Gospels

Holly Hearon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402424
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The History of the Closure of Biblical Texts

Werner H. Kelber
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402425
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Oral and Written Communication and Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient Judaism and Christianity

Catherine Hezser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402426
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Two Faces of the Qur’ān: Qur’ān and Muṣḥaf

Angelika Neuwirth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402427
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Oral and Written Aspects of the Emergence of the Gospel of Mark as Scripture

Richard A. Horsley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402428
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Biblical Performance Criticism: Performance as Research

David Rhoads
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402429
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The Constitution of the Koran as a Codified Work: Paradigm for Codifying Hadīth and the Islamic Sciences?

Gregor Schoeler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402430
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Summation

William A. Graham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402431
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From Jāhiliyyah to Badīciyyah: Orality, Literacy, and the Transformations of Rhetoric in Arabic Poetry

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402432
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About the Authors

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402433
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Oral Tradition in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Introduction

Werner Kelber, Paula Sanders
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2010.a402421
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