Memory studies emphasize the frailty of human memory, but they also demonstrate that eyewitnesses are normally able to recount many significant episodes from the prime of their life decades after their experiences (ch. 14). Jesus was a teacher, which entails that he taught his disciples. For at least thirty years after Jesus taught them, these disciples remained in prominent roles in the church, respected even in the Diaspora.2 While they did not formally “control” the tradition, they would be the