NT Historicity, Part 2: Can We Trust the Early Church’s Memory?

Answers for Ambassadors

English - August 17, 2015 22:19 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MB
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After Jesus’ ascension, the early church remembered his life and teaching through oral tradition for about 30 years before the first gospel was written down. Would that sort of collective memory within a first-century community be trustworthy?