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The sayings of Jesus and the dating of the Gospels

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Postby AllanS » February 6th, 2009, 8:33 am

“And turn their grief into song?" he replied. "That would be a gracious act and a good beginning."

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Postby Karen » February 7th, 2009, 3:03 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Re: The sayings of Jesus and the dating of the Gospels

Postby Karen » February 8th, 2009, 1:55 pm

There's a difference between remembering discrete facts and being able to recite long paragraphs of prose. One isn't necessarily better, or proof of more intelligence than the other, but it's true that in previous generations children were trained to do the latter, and now they're not. For those who lived before the printing press - and yes, it was only a small fraction of the populace who became the storytellers - that ability was even more pronounced. It's not romanticizing, it's simply a different way of learning and passing on information.
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