Moses didn’t write scrolls until shortly before his death. For forty years Israel followed God’s very specific laws and built the Tabernacle. Moses had spent several periods of forty days in supernatural communion with God (witnessed by all Israel), and then taught for forty years before anything was written down.
A good point, but I don't think that's what the Eastern Orthodox priest author of the article is saying. It strikes me as just one more attack on the authenticity and veracity of the Hebrew Bible in the name of chrstian tradition.
Chrstianity does not have the authentic Oral Torah. All its oral traditions are ultimately attacks aimed at the Hebrew Bible, from ancient typology to modern historical criticism.
You are correct.
I just like to point out that everyone’s interpretation is ultimately based on tradition because otherwise there is no way to detect errors.
Without error-detection, every Joe Smith and David Koresh is just as likely to be as correct as the Pope or Billy Graham.