Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity with Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity (The Biblical Resource Series

by Birger Gerhardsson, Mr. Jacob Neusner (Foreword), Mr. Eric J. Sharpe (Translator)

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.

Genres: New Testament, Biblical Studies

482 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published April 1, 1997

Reviews

[Spencer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A classic representation of tradition-criticism that seeks to look more at how the traditions were transmitted as opposed to the form-critical premise of the literature itself. Through methods of transmission, we might gain something about how early Christianity and the church began.