Re: The sayings of Jesus and the dating of the Gospels
Posted:
February 8th, 2009, 1:55 pm
by Karen
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.