Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity with Tradition and Transmission in

by Eric J. Sharpe and Birger Gerhardsson

Book Overview

Here in one volume are two of Birger Gerhardsson's much-debated works on the transmission of tradition in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. In Memory and Manuscript (1961), Gerhardsson 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 developed in Rabbinic Judaism. In Tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802843662
• ISBN13: 9780802843661
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"