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Sources for oral tradition of the Gospels, the Oral Law, and unearthly feats of memorization in the ancient world (see below):
"Manthropology: The Science of Why The Modern Male is Not The Man He Used To Be" by Peter McAllister, 159-186
The following does not argue that the Jewish Oral Law didn't exist, only that it doesn't have a divine origin.
google.com/books/edition/…
Josephus, "The Antiquities of the Jews", 13.10.6. (297)
Josephus "Against Apion" 2.18
"Writing on the Tablet of the Heart" by David Carr
"Wax Tablets of the Mind" by Jocelyn Small
"Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and the Hidden Transcript in Q" by Richard Horsley
"John, Jesus, and History: Aspects of Historicity in the Fourth Gospel" by Paul Anderson, Felix Just and Tom Thatcher
"Methods and Message of Jesus’s Teachings" by Robert H. Stein
"Orality and Literacy in Hellenistic Greece" by Tony Lentz
"The New Testament and the People of God" by NT Wright
"Contours of Christology in the New Testament" by Richard Longenecker
"Gospel Tradition and Its Beginnings" by Harold Riesenfed
"The Book of Memory" by Mary Carruthers
"Redating Matthew, Mark & Luke" by John Wenham
Seneca's "Epistles" 27.6-7

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