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Bart Ehrman often uses the telephone game as an analogy for how gospel stories changed with transmission.
He suggests that the stories went through many steps of oral transmission.
From “Jesus, Interrupted”:
He suggests that the stories went through many steps of oral transmission.
From “Jesus, Interrupted”:
Meanwhile in “Jesus before the Gospels” he speaks positively of the research on memory by FC Bartlett and in this quotation of how quickly names get corrupted.
But if Bartlett is right, the fact that the specifics and proportions of gospel names (as demonstrated by Richard Bauckham) are so fitting, undermines Ehrman’s ideas that the stories could generally be 5th hand, or yet further removed from the events.
