Menachem Mendel

The journal Oral Tradition is now online. This includes both the current issue and its archives. (hat tip) One specific issue which will probably be of interest to many of this blog’s readers is vol. 14 no. 11, which has the following articles:

Jewish Folk Literature
by Dan Ben-Amos
The Fixing of the Oral Mishnah and the Displacement of Meaning
by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Literary Composition and Oral Performance in Early Midrashim
by Steven D. Fraade
Oral Tradition in the Writings of Rabbinic Oral Torah: On Theorizing Rabbinic Orality
by Martin S. Jaffee
Orality and the Redaction of the Babylonian Talmud
by Yaakov Elman

The entire issue can be downloaded here.

Additional articles which may be of interest are:

Oral Tradition and Rabbinic Studies (here)
by Martin S. Jaffee
Before Textuality: Orality and Interpretation (here)
by Walter J. Ong