Definitions for "Oral tradition"
history, customs, and spiritual and social expectations passed on through spoken word from generation to generation.
a community's cultural and historical background preserved and passed on from one generation to the next in spoken stories and song, as distinct from being written down
The passing on of oral culture, tradition, and history from one generation to the next, through stories told time and again. Oral tradition did not, and does not, cease to exist with the rise of literacy; it co-exists, especially in cultures that retain a strong sense of oral dissemination of information and culture.
a very unreliable source of information
a perpetual text-making and re-making which, once recorded in print, becomes frozen as a slice or representation of a moment in time
Keywords:  gospel, jesus, writing, events, life
The period of time between the events in the life of Jesus and the writing of the first Gospel
Music that is transmitted by example or imitation and performed from memory.
Keywords:  transmission, see
See Oral Transmission