Rudolf Bultmann

Rudolf Karl Bultmann (August 20, 1884 - July 30, 1976) was a German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg. His History of the Synoptic Tradition (1921) is still highly regarded as an essential tool for gospel research, even by scholars who reject his analyses of the conventional rhetorical tropes or narrative units of which the Gospels are assembled, and the historically-oriented principles called "form criticism," of which Bultmann has been the most influential exponent:

References

New Jerome Biblical Commentary Edited by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmeyer, and Roland E. Murphy, Prentice Hall 1990, update of 1968 edition, See P 1137-1139, Modern New Testament Criticism- John S. Kselman and Ronald D. Witherup

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• R. Bultmann, Existence and Faith. Shorter Writings of Rudolf Bultmann, edited and translated by S. M. Ogden, London, 1961
• R. Bultmann, Jesus and the Word, translated by L. P. Smith and E. H. Lantero, London, 1952.
• R. Bultmann, New Testament and Mythology and Other Writings, edited and translated by S. M. Ogden, London, 1984
• D. Fergusson, Bultmann, London, 1992
• Edgar V. McKnight, What is Form Criticism (Guides to Biblical Scholarship, New Testament Series) Fortress Press, 1969