And it's around that memory, around that set of concerns that a lot of the earliest oral stories about Jesus ... Our first writer in the New Testament is Paul, and his first letter is dated ...

This oral tradition is analogous to apostolic oral tradition, referred to in the New Testament. For example, Jesus preached in the Sermon on the Mount, “You have heard that it was said to the ...

Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times in the New Testament (just ask the moneychangers ... had been passed down through centuries of oral tradition. "The Pharisees believed that they ...