[MurphsLaw]

You obviously think ancient life had some parallel to our modern times. Your statements are general and speculative- and lacking understanding what oral tradition is. (ie. Contemporary understanding of oral tradition depends not on documents—which are at best written reflections of oral traditions—but on experience gained through firsthand study of societies that depend upon oral tradition as a major means of communication and how this textless communication operates.)

Yes there were manuscripts from the scribes. Very few, and none concerning Jesus, until later, and only for a privileged few.
Jesus didn’t write anything down to begin with. Christianity was not about text, but of a new life, a new way of Worship. The Gospel writings came years later. Writings like the Didache gives us insight into those early Christians yes, Paul’s letters as well, but notice how Pual encouraged his listeners:

Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.

The spread of Christianity away from Jerusalem- through Galatia, Thessalonika, Asia Minor, to Rome and Europe was not accomplished through mass publication of texts – but tradition of what it meant to be and live as a Christian. Christ first, books later.

[metmom]

It’s not about “tradition”.

It was through the preaching of the gospel.

And when Paul preached the gospel in the book of Acts to the Bereans, they searched the Scripture daily to see if those things were so.

It’s in Acts 17.