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The formation of the Christian Bible

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Paul's "concepts of 'delivering' and 'receiving' ...are not chosen by accident. They...have a ceremonial and technical meaning which describes the special act by which fixed traditions are formally handed on" (p 107). Second Temple Jews stressed rote learning, and there is evidence that their population may have been more literate than the Romans of the time (see Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus). Oral transmission of religious belief was natural and, apparently, highly trustworthy.

This is why the gospels and Paul's epistles, although collected early ( see Martin Hengel) and no doubt read aloud at religious services, were not as highly regarded as the oral traditions and the oral witnesses. Significantly, oral witnesses are mentioned again and again in the gospels and in Paul's epistles.

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220.61 CAM f

Publisher

Philadelphia : Fortress Press., 1977

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xiv, 324p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

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0-8006-1263-9

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220.61

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BIBLE - CRITICISM, INTERPRETATIONS

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Statement of Responsibility

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