The Myth of Milman Parry
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):115-142 The Myth of Milman Parry Oral traditions are creative: they romanticize and sensationalize otherwise mundane events. The memory of a historical… Read More
Oral Tradition and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):3-22 The Dead Sea Scrolls are a cache of ancient manuscripts written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered in eleven caves from… Read More
Does Hector’s Helmet Flash?
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):89-114 The most important question raised by studies in oral tradition is “So what?”—John Miles Foley, “Oral Tradition and… Read More