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The last three decades have seen an explosion of biblical scholarship on the presence and consequences of the oral expression of tradition among Jesus’ followers, especially in the earliest decades of the Common Era. However, this scholarship is abstract and technical and, to date, no introductory discussion exists to introduce students to these complex issues being discussed at higher levels of...

oral Torah) and the work carried out in the Qumran congregation of dabar YHWH (the Holy Scriptures and the sect’s own tradition, which was partly oral and partly written). This apostolic work on “the word of God” was thus the most important element in the comprehensive concept hē didachē tōn apostolōn (Acts 2:42) and the concept hē diakonia tou logou (Acts 6:4). (331). This collegium—and “the young Church” (1961: passim) in general—developed and transmitted a fixed tradition of Jesus’ teachings,
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