Rabbinic Judaism of the 1st century CE believed that Moses was given both Oral and Written Torah. To be authentic, the Oral Torah had to be transmitted orally. While it is easy to see how a Written Torah could be transmitted from generation to generation; how did the Oral Torah survive apostasy, Babylonian exile and Hellenistic hegemony?
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