num_pages: 400
description: The traditions about Jesus and his teaching circulated in oral form for many years, continuing to do so for decades following the writing of the New Testament Gospels. James Dunn is one of the major voices urging that more consideration needs to be given to the oral use and transmission of the Jesus tradition as a major factor in giving the Synoptic tradition its enduring character.
language: English
title: The Oral Gospel Tradition
publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.