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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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