This paper will attempt to review chapter seven from Michael L. Barré’s book "Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation." In order to facilitate this assignment, I will provide my summary of the material and my personal response to it also. The chapter itself is quite short and concise only being eleven pages long. It was a very quick read that I felt left out some crucial points. The chapter was quite factual and didn't really answer `why` to a lot of its points. Despite this, the chapter did have some eye opening points. In general I viewed the Bible as an ancient book with many different stories. I never thought about how the Bible would have had to undergo a long journey through many eras, people and places before it became the sacred text we recognize today. The chapter opens informing the reader that the bible was not written in english, in fact it was not written for quite some time. The chapter discusses the oral character of biblical traditions. The majority of the biblical stories once existed in oral form. Immediately I grew slightly concerned. Surely if the bible started off as an oral tradition without anything being written down, pieces of the story could have been added or even taken out just like a game of Chinese whispers. For example, Matthew`s version of the Lords Prayer did not contain the words ``For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen``.(120) This led me to wonder where Matthew got this from and why didn't the other evangelists have this included. Is the Lord`s words from the gospel accounts actually what the Lord said himself or were people just making things up themselves. For  most  ancient  texts  such  as  the  Bible,  the  exact  dates  of  composition  are unrecoverable which leaves a lot of unanswered questions. The chapter also discusses how the New Testament ( the gospels in particular) were also passed down orally. Further research informed me that the gospels were not written down until 30 years after the de