Academically is there a difference between Mythology stories & Oral Histories?

Question

If the Jesus story was Oral History until it was put into writing is that the point
at which the Jesus story can be considered Mythology?

Answer 1

Yes and no. Here is my academic, working-on- my-master's -in-mythology answer: Anything can be both oral history and mythology. For that matter, anything can be hard-fact history and mythology. The academic definition of a myth is a story that gives significance to a religion or a culture, *whether true, false, or unproven*. The entire Bible, though much is historical fact, can be classified as mythology, as can the documented details of Siddhartha Gautama's life, the writings of Confucius, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster's global warming chart.

Answer 2

Oral histories only become 'mythology' if they were mythological to begin with. In other words, if the Greeks told each other the story of how the seasons change before they wrote them down, writing it down does not change the content of what is being said. Jesus 'became' mythological, but his mythological aspect is distinct (and remains so) from the historical facts of his existence. If you were to write down today's date, for example, a list of every conversation you had (with transcripts) then wrote a cosmological theory explaining why they happened, your cosmological theory would be 'mythology' while the record of your conversations would become 'history'.

Answer 3

Mythology is the artwork of organic fiction with wild imaginations, on a similar time as, historic previous is all with regard to the incidences that have factually passed off in the previous, for which documentary info & some circumstances archival proofs could be had.

Answer 4

Any part or whole myth that is proven to exist,by fact.That myth no longer remains a myth but turns into a part of historical reality.There is a very fine line between myths and stories.The story of Jesus is part myth and part history ,as is it is with myths ,history can be created or written and manipulated.Faith is what is more important.