Tag: Literacy

• Rethinking Jesus (10) Oral Transmission and the Gospels

  It’s sometimes claimed that the stories we’re told in the four Gospels are based on eyewitness testimony, which was carefully (or even ‘religiously’) passed on, initially by word of mouth, until eventually written down in ‘gospel’ form. This means, some tell us, that we can have every confidence that everything we read in the Gospels […]

  calgacus83

  16th Feb 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Bart Ehrman, Gospels, Internet, Jesus, Literacy, Stories, Transmission, Word of Mouth