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When we think of scripture’s oral traditions, we often think of ancient history, the verbal stories passed from person to person, generation to generation, town to town—stories that would one day be written down and included in what we call the Bible. But I’m also fascinated by our ongoing oral traditions, the games of telephone we play that ever so subtly shift the translations and meanings of these ancient speeches turned text (turned speech).
