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They spent decades traveling around telling the gospels. Only when they grew old and realized Jesus wasn't coming back in their lifetime did they decide to star
by october8140 2y ago
They spent decades traveling around telling the gospels. Only when they grew old and realized Jesus wasn't coming back in their lifetime did they decide to start writing it down.
I would put my money on the similarities being tied to oral tradition. Probably listening to each other.
- goatlover 2y agoNo, because comparison of the Greek in the earliest manuscripts shows evidence of textual copying. Same way teachers recognize plagiarism or students copying from one another.
- no-dr-onboard 2y agoJewish oral tradition, at the time of the writing of the gospels, had largely been replaced by the robust scribal polity and the infrastructure that they created that was dominant at that time. This is further evidenced by the statistically insignificant amount of transposition errors for written works from that era. Was oral tradition around and popular for the lay polity that time? Absolutely. Was it heeded in and above scribal tradition? No, not at all.