The History of the Synoptic Tradition

One of the ground-breaking books in modern Biblical scholarship. Bultmann has greatly contributed both to our detailed knowledge of the oral tradition and to our understanding of its place in the life and faith of the earliest Christian community.-- Gunther Bornkamn For forty years Bultmann's pioneering work has provided impetus to gospel studies; in English it will be especially valuable for American students who can now more readily test the validity of his methods and conclusions. Form Criticism is evidently here to stay, and in this book it is encountered in the work of a master. -- Robert M. Grant