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This is the coolest thing I read last night:

“The living or spoken Word was primary; the written word was secondary and often
no more than a record of the oral. In our age of millions of books, e-mail,
Internet chat rooms and the like, it is hard for us to grasp that physical text
was not primary in antiquity. Text was largely a tool of oral culture. This is
why the study of rhetoric in and of Paul’s letters is crucial. Paul wrote his
words so that they might be heard as persuasive, not merely seen to be
persuasive.” – The Paul Quest, Ben Witherington III, p93