Memory and Manuscript - Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity; With, Tradition and Transmission I

Explores the way in which Jewish rabbis during the first Christian centuries preserved and passed on their sacred tradition, and he shows how early Christianity is better understood in light of how that tradition develoed in Rabbinic Judaism.

About the author

Birger Gerhardsson (1926-2013) was professor emeritus of exegetical theology at Lund University, Sweden. Among his other books are The Testing of God's Son, The Gospel Tradition, and The Shema in the New Testament.

Product details

• Authors: Birger Gerhardsson
• Assisted by: Eric J. Sharpe (Translation)
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1998
• EAN: 9780802843661
• ISBN: 978-0-8028-4366-1
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 760 g
• Series: Biblical Resource
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity