They're passing on the tradition of what happened to Jesus, what he stood for and what he did, orally, by telling it and retelling it.... The fact that we're dealing in oral medium of story ...

SECRECY AND MISUNDERSTANDING Mark retells the story of Jesus. He starts by taking a number of elements of earlier oral tradition. Mark seems to have a knowledge of at least one and maybe two or ...

There were no instruction manuals or drawings to assist him. “It was an oral tradition,” Chapin said. Stan Pocock gave Chapin ...