Informal Controlled Oral Tradition and the Synoptic Gospels

Abstract

Professor Bailey was formerly Theologian in Residence in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East (Cyprus) and Research Professor of Middle Eastern NT Studies (Jerusalem). He has had extensive experience of Middle Eastern life which, in this article, he uses to examine the traditions that lie behind the Synoptic Gospels. This article was originally published in the Asia Journal of Theology 5 (1991), pp. 34-54.