Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (Biblia.com)

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Before the written Gospel there was—what? Previous thinking regarding “oral tradition” imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would constitute what we know as the end result, the written Gospels. That picture—and the implicit understanding of the Gospel writers as “editors”—has changed. The groundbreaking work gathered in this volume...

the latter legacy in many ways continues to dominate biblical studies, in which efforts to “peel away the layers” in order to derive the “original voice” of the text persist. A second view, dating to the midpoint of the century, describes transmission as a strictly controlled process that can be traced back to eyewitnesses. Proponents of this view, in particular Birger Gerhardsson and Harald Reisenfeld, model their theory on rabbinic practices in which teachings were transmitted verbatim from rabbi

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