What is oral transmission and their examples
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Jesus Traditions
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The Period of Oral Transmission
For almost a generation before our earliest written sources, in the period between A.D. 30 and 65, the gospel material circulated by word of mouth. We may be surprised, given the high esteem in which Jesus was held by his earliest followers, that they did not very soon in the post-Easter period begin to commit their recollections to writing. That they were not busy writing gospels in those early days may be accounted for by the following considerations:
His disciples (as we may refer to the community of early believers) were living in an atmosphere of intense expectation of the end-of-time, when Christ would return on clouds of glory; hence there was little incentive to record their memories for generations to follow.
Since apostles and others who had been close to Jesus were a ready source of information about episodes in his life, these believers had no need to consult written records; indeed, Christians in the first century seem to have preferred the living tradition to writings, even when gospels became available.
The urgency of proclaiming the gospel may well have crowded out any literary inclinations there might have been among the apostles.
   
Jesus Traditions
Contents of Jesus Traditions
The Period of Oral Transmission
For almost a generation before our earliest written sources, in the period between A.D. 30 and 65, the gospel material circulated by word of mouth. We may be surprised, given the high esteem in which Jesus was held by his earliest followers, that they did not very soon in the post-Easter period begin to commit their recollections to writing. That they were not busy writing gospels in those early days may be accounted for by the following considerations:
His disciples (as we may refer to the community of early believers) were living in an atmosphere of intense expectation of the end-of-time, when Christ would return on clouds of glory; hence there was little incentive to record their memories for generations to follow.
Since apostles and others who had been close to Jesus were a ready source of information about episodes in his life, these believers had no need to consult written records; indeed, Christians in the first century seem to have preferred the living tradition to writings, even when gospels became available.
The urgency of proclaiming the gospel may well have crowded out any literary inclinations there might have been among the apostles.
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