Scripture as Spoken Word

I found Luther's identification with the oral gospel to remind me alot of the Jewish Oral Torah. I feel this connection is most vivid in Luther's proclamation that an "oral gospel" should exist and convey the Bible yet not be committed to writing. I think this also highlights an interesting and common theme in Scripture that Graham mentions which is the inseparable relationship oral scripture shares with its written manuscript form which almost always appears later. In Islam, Judaism and to lesser extent Christianity the aural recitation of scripture is considered as reflecting piety and the maintaining of tradition. Of the these religions Christianity seems the most rooted in its primary sources - the written New Testament - and have the least focus in oral and secondary.