You are the one who pointed out that it was tradition. If you wanted to say it was history.....then why didn't you?
I was merely pointing out the obvious.....that even you consider it tradition, not history! I should have indicated the levity of the situation by posting "LOL".....but I didn't want you to think I was laughing at you.
I feel no need whatsoever to draw such a bright line between the two concepts--one is the oral form, the other the written. During WWII, my grandfather served in Africa, my other grandfather made munitions at a factory. How do I know those things? Not through any books but from the tradition my family has passed down. I have no documentation of either of those events...yet I know intimately some of the principals involved, so I am certain the tradition is true. If I ever decided to write about those things, I'd be writing history based on tradition. See, it's not so easy to pick the two apart.
On the other hand, I well know how easy it is for some here to simply toss Christian authors of the 1st - 3rd centuries into the "tradition" pile and thereby invalidate their whole credibility. So sometimes I am a little more circumspect about using that word.
I was merely pointing out the obvious.....that even you consider it tradition, not history! I should have indicated the levity of the situation by posting "LOL".....but I didn't want you to think I was laughing at you.
Feel free to laugh! Humility is a virtue. :)