Understanding form criticism is an important part of biblical studies. “Form criticism proceeds upon the premise that parts (e.g., miracle stories, pronouncement stories, and sayings) of the early Christian and Israelite traditions circulated as individual oral units, were finally collected, and eventually became sources for the composition of the biblical texts.”19 A part of form criticism is tradition criticism, “This means that form criticism attempts to inquire as far back into the form as possible, even to the form’s origin. Therefore, form criticism concerns itself with a process of development from origin to present context.”20 Source criticism is essential to biblical studies also. “Source critics seek to identify earlier traditions
