The Talmud purports to be the written version of the oral Torah that Pharisaic and later Orthodox Judaism believed was ...

is actually developed through the oral tradition itself. Now one of the most important examples of this comes in the First Corinthian Letter. On two separate occasions in First Corinthians ...

is also an example of this passing on of an oral tradition. It owes its history to Mark, whether Mark is the person who actually wrote it down or not. Mark's is the first of the written gospels.

Recapping last week, we began investigating the early oral tradition (kerygma) that Paul captured on papyrus in his first letter to the Corinthian church; chapter 15, verses 3-7. We know ...