Abbreviations; Introduction; Oral Tradition; Prolegomena to the Study of Oral Tradition in the Hellenistic World; Oral Tradition in the Old Testament; Oral Tradition and Written Transmission, or the Heard and the Seen Word in Judaism of the Second Temple Period; Orality in Pharisaic-rabbinic Judaism at the Turn of the Eras; Jesus as Preacher and Teacher; Oral Tradition and the Aphorisms of Jesus; Illuminating the Kingdom: Narrative Meshalim in the Synoptic Gospels; The Making of Narratives in the Synoptic Gospels Oral Tradition Before, In, and Outside the Canonical Passion NarrativesJohn and the Oral Gospel Tradition; Paul and the Oral Gospel Tradition; Does the Didache Contain Jesus Tradition Independently of the Synoptic Gospels?; Some Consequences of Birger Gerhardsson's Account of the Origins of the Gospel Tradition; Index of Biblical and other References; Index of Authors