Including Some of My Favorite Byzantine Catholic Churches

NLM: Assumption Photopost

I hope St. Michael can gain some new members.

Roots of Christianity

Assuming that it did exist, what remains of the pre-Christian Jewish oral (or written) tradition(s) of interpretation and commentary on the Old Testament? Was there something more authoritative or separate from the Oral Torah? How much of the tradition of early Jewish exegesis has been preserved?