3. The Reliability of the New Testament (Oral Tradition)

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This is a defense of the oral tradition which handed us down the New Testament. This video points out that from scholarship, there is no reason to doubt the reliability of the New Testament.


Sources:
Dethroning Jesus - Darrell Bock & Dan Wallace

Fabricating Jesus - Craig Evans

Trusting the New Testament - JP Holding

The Text of the New Testament - Bruce Metzger & Bart Ehrman

   • Jesus, the Gospels, and the Telephone Game  

The Book of Memory - Mary Carruthers

Orality and Literacy in Hellenistic Greece - Tony Lentz

Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and the Hidden Transcript in Q - Richard Horsley

Wax Tablets of the Mind - Jocelyn Small

http://ext.sagepub.com/content/106/12...

http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/art...

Writing on the Tablet of the Heart - David Carr

https://www.galaxie.com/article/tynbu...

Gospel Tradition and Its Beginnings - Harold Riesenfed

The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature - David E. Aune

Contours of Christology in the New Testament - Richard Longenecker

A Symphony of New Testament Hymns - Robert J. Karris

Methods and Message of Jesus’s Teachings - Robert H. Stein

John, Jesus, and History: Aspects of Historicity in the Fourth Gospel - Paul Anderson, Felix Just, Tom Thatcher

The New Testament and the People of God - NT Wright

Redating Matthew, Mark & Luke - John Wenham

   • The issue of oral tradition.  

A Guide to Historical Method- Robert Jones Shafer

Old Norse Epics and Historical Traditions - Marlene Ciklamini



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