Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-238).

Orality, literacy, and colonialism in antiquity / Jonathan A. Draper -- Essays -- Indigenous poems, colonialist texts / John Miles Foley -- Cognition, orality-literacy, and approaches to first-century writings / Pieter J.J. Botha -- Moving beyond colonialist discourse : understanding oral theory and cultural difference in the context of media analysis / J.A. "Bobby" Loubser -- Why did Plato write? / Jean-Luc Solâre -- Mithra's cult : an example of religious colonialism in Roman times? / Baudouin Decharneux -- The origins of the Hebrew scriptures in imperial relations / Richard A. Horsley -- Roman imperialism and early Christian scribality / Werner H. Kelber -- Practicing the presence of God in John : ritual use of scripture and the Eidos Theou in John 5:37 / Jonathan A. Draper -- Responses -- Rabbinic oral tradition in late Byzantine Galilee : Christian empire and rabbinic ideological resistance / Martin S. Jaffee -- Oralities, literacies, and colonialism in antiquity and contemporary scholarship / Claudia V. Camp.