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In Behind the Gospels, Eric Eve provides a critical introduction to a major storm center of debate in New Testament studies: oral tradition and memory theory. Eve gives both a helpful survey of the scholarly literature and original proposals for clarifying and advancing our understanding of these key issues. He explores the media contrast model, the rabbinic model, informal controlled oral...

Oral tradition is always something spoken, but not everything spoken is oral tradition. To call something oral tradition is to imply that it has been handed on over a period of time. It thus implies at least some degree of stability in what is handed on so that one can meaningfully talk of the same tradition at different points in time. The great majority of what is spoken is too ephemeral ever to become oral tradition. Everyday conversation is
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