Who wrote down the oral traditions and teachings of Judaism?

• A. Prophets
• B. Rabbis
• C. Scribes
• D. Disciple

Answer: (C)

The way Judaism preserves its oral traditions is through a literate record-keeping class that writes down teachings so they can be passed reliably from generation to generation. Scribes, or soferim, were skilled copyists and scholars whose role was to preserve the spoken interpretations and legal rulings by putting them into written form. This writing-down of oral guidance created a stable source that communities could study and refer to, beyond memory or local custom. Over time, rabbis would build on this written foundation, organizing and clarifying the oral law into codified works like the later Mishnah and Talmud, but the crucial act of recording those oral traditions in writing belongs to the scribes.