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

ORAL TRADITIONS EVOLVE INTO GOSPELS We have to ... He never tells us anything about teaching in parables or any of those other typical features of the gospel tradition of Jesus.

There were oral traditions that went on after the written ... We have reports of what Jesus said. He told parables, he told stories, he told little epigrams. Those have a shape to them.