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Memory & Manuscript : Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity with Tradition & Transmission in Early Christianity
Outline : THE BIBLICAL RESOURCE SERIES
The purpose of THE BIBLICAL RESOURCE SERIES is to make avail- able titles that the scholarly community regards as essential resources for the biblical thinker of today. Chosen in consultation with an editorial board of eminent biblical scholars Astrid B. Beck, David Noel Freedman, Harold W. Attridge, Adela Yarbro Collins, John Huehnergard, Peter Machinist, John P. Meier, Shalom M. Paul, Stanley E. Porter, and James C. VanderKam- these volumes include reprints, corrected and expanded editions, as well as substantial revisions.
Here in one volume are two of Birger Gerhardsson's much-debate H works on the transmission of tradition in Rabbinic Judaism an 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 earl Christianity is better understood in light of how that tradition developed i Rabbinic Judaism. In Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity (1964 Gerhardsson further clarifies the discussion and answers criticism of his earlier book. This BIBLICAL RESOURCE SERIES combined edition corrects an expands Gerhardsson's original works and includes a new preface by the author and a lengthy new foreword by Jacob Neusner that summarizes these works' importance and subsequent influence.
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