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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...

on individual memories. People tend to relate their memories according to the narrative forms current in their culture. If an eyewitness habitually narrates his or her account of a salient event, it may undergo the same kind of shaping that an oral tradition would. In some cases an eyewitness may deliberately shape an account with the intention of initiating an oral tradition. A teacher might do so to help ensure the survival of his or her words (as, for example, Birger Gerhardsson argues; see Chapter
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