Oral Traditions (Subscribe)
Links
Oral Transmission
http://www.paulonpaul.org/jesus/sources_2.htm
The oral tradition of the New Testament in the period between A.D. 30 and 65, when the gospel material circulated by word of mouth.
Oral Tradition in New Testament Studies
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/oral_tradition/v018/18.1horsley.html
An article on the importance of oral communication in the formative period of what became New Testament literature.
Oral Tradition and Biblical Scholarship
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/oral_tradition/v018/18.1niditch.html
A short article on oral tradition and the border where oral meets written as an integral part of modern biblical scholarship.
On the Reliability of Oral Tradition
http://www.tektonics.org/ntdocdef/orality01.html
A defense of the oral tradition against some of the arguments of Jesus Seminar thinking as well as arguments for the use of both oral and written traditions.
Formation of the Oral Tradition.
http://www.catholicevangelism.org/h-scripture1.shtml
The first of two pages on topics such as the comparison of ancient and modern techniques to record events, a chronology of how the Pentateuch moved from an oral tradition to a written text, and some examples of the earliest pieces of the oral tradition.