How to Read the Bible Part 1: Reading the Bible Aloud in a Community?
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Oral Storytelling Is Not Unique in the History of Israel
Every culture uses storytelling, oral storytelling to form their identity. But the fact that they write it down and they encourage everyone to read it together and to be literate is unique. Almost certainly through much of Israelite history, this oral memorization existed alongside written texts are still expensive to produce in ancient history. Can you imagine living in a time where it's easier to just commit something to memory than to write it down? Yeah. We now live in a time in human history where it's far, far easier by orders of extreme magnitude to writing it down and to remember it. And now we don't remember anything. Now we write it down, kind of. It exists in the cloud
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