Oh! I see what you meant.. sorry..
The old testament was enshrined in the synagogue then as it is now..
The Jews had/have a virtual shrine you know.. (as a scroll)
At least the Torah.. but prosperous community's had the prophets..
The first christians were Jews and the Gospel was repeated verbally much like the old testament was.. Still is in China where the word of god is almost contraband.. People are jailed for trafficking in it..
That being said, Jesus was and is the Word of God..
The Logos is one thing, the Rhema is quite another..
There is a difference between 'revealed' faith that patriarchs and prophets wrote about, and Christ's ministry on earth witnessed by the Apostles who then wrote (decades later) what they actually saw or heard either in person or from those who were there. There is a difference between what we see 'inside' and what we perceive outside.
But, regardless, God did not give us the Scriptures. He never commanded His disciples to write down what He said. In the case of the Torah, the Jews believe,m and in the case of the Koran, the Muslims believe that God dictated the books word-by-word to Moses and Mohammad. Sure...
Suppsoedly guided by the Holy Spirit, the humans wrote, and it was the hierarchy of the Church recognized, selected, safeguarded, sorted out and canonized the Scriptures. I know this must be difficult for you to swallow, but then the alternative is to throw out the Bible along with the Church.