"4 years ago, an anon commenter recommended this book on my still niche substack. 4 years later, I finally got around to reading it (after many others recommended it as well)

Ong gives an incredible anthology of what a truly oral culture is like, which is often hard for literary creatures to imagine.

It was particularly timely to read it while also going through apologetics again and thinking about the historicity of the gospel texts, which are literary residues of early oral Christian traditions."