Description: New Testament scholars often talk about oral tradition as a means by which material about Jesus reached the Gospels writers. Despite the recent interest in oral tradition, scholarly advances have not penetrated the mainstream of academic Gospels scholarship, let alone the wider public. Behind the Gospels fills this gap, offering a general theoretical discussion of oral tradition and the formation of ancient texts and providing a critical survey of the field.
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Eric Eve is fellow and tutor in theology at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and is the author of The Jewish Context of Jesus" Miracles (2002) and The Healer from Nazareth: Jesus" Miracles in Historical Context (2009).