SUGGESTION: Birger Gerhardsson RIP

I just learnt that Swedish NT exegete Birger Gerhardsson -- who, among other things, wrote a ground-breaking attack on NT form criticism -- died on Christmas night, so I did a search on logos.com, and the only thing I found was this introduction to Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives:
"Few scholars have influenced New Testament scholarship in the areas of orality, memory, and tradition more profoundly than Birger Gerhardsson. Today, as these topics have again become important in biblical scholarship, his pioneering work takes on a new light. Though the esteemed contributors may differ on issues in the burgeoning study, they have all enthusiastically taken on the dual task of evaluating Gerhardsson’s contribution anew and bringing his insights up to date within the current debate."
Plus the usual supporting quotes, including:
"Gerhardsson’s Memory and Manuscript is a landmark in the fields of orality, memory, and tradition."
As so often, Logos sells books about other books, but not the original books themselves (Kierkegaard, de Lubac...). What use are links if there's nothing to link to? So, here's what I could find in English:
- Memory & Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity with Tradition & Transmission in Early Christianity (The Biblical Resource Series) (Eerdmans) (2 books in one, with intro by Neusner, which is interesting, given the story. As one reviewer puts it: "This handsomely presented republication (with new material) of one of the most important and least known books relating to the history of early Judaism and of very early Christianity was savagely attacked by one of the leading Biblical scholars of the 1950's and 1960's and a group of his associates and students. One of those students--the prolific Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner--now repents from his unfair attack and adds his own lengthy preface to a book he, in effect, helped to suppress three decades ago.")
- The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition (Baker Academic)
- The Origins of the Gospel Traditions (Fortress Press)
- The Ethos of the Bible (Wipf & Stock)
- The Testing of God's Son: (Matt. 4:1-11 & PAR), An Analysis of an Early Christian Midrash (Wipf & Stock)
- The mighty acts of Jesus according to Matthew (Scripta minora Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis...
- The Shema in the New Testament: Deut 6:4-5 in Significant Passages
- The Gospel Tradition (Coniectanea Biblica New Testament Series - CBNTS, 15) (Could be the same as above)
A longer presentation of him can be found at Birger Gerhardsson 1926 – 2013. | Philonica et Neotestamentica.
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Thank you, fgh, for the information! Much appreciated! *smile* Blessings and Peace for 2014!
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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