Birger Gerhardsson
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Birger Gerhardsson, born 1926, is a Swedish Biblical scholar and professor emeritus in the Faculty of Theology at Lund University
, Sweden
. His primary academic focus has been on the transmission and development of the oral traditions of the New Testament
gospels.
Lund University
Lund University , located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, is one of northern Europe's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. His primary academic focus has been on the transmission and development of the oral traditions of the New Testament
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
gospels.
Selected bibliography
- "Memory and Manuscript; Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity." Thesis, Uppsala., 1961.
- Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity, Coniectanea Neotestamentica, 20. Lund,: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1964.
- The Origins of the Gospel Traditions. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979.
- The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2001.