Bo Ivar Reicke (

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, 31 July 1914 – 1987) was a Swedish biblical scholar. He graduated from the

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as Master of Philosophy in 1938 and

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in 1941, in which year he was also ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran

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. He received his doctorate in theology in 1946 and became associate professor on the Uppsala Faculty. From 1953 to 1984, Reicke was professor of

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at the

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Works

* The Disobedient Spirits & Christian Baptism: A Study of 1 Peter 3:19 * Re-Examining Paul's Letters: the History of the Pauline Correspondence *New Testament Era: The World of the Bible from 500 B.C. to A.D. 100 *The Roots of the Synoptic Gospels *The Gospel of Luke *The Epistles of James, Peter, and Jude *Traces of Gnosticism in the

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? *Body and Soul in the New Testament. ''Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology'', (19) 1-2: 200-212. *"The constitution of the primitive church in the light of Jewish documents / Bo Reike" in Stendahl Krister. ''The Scrolls and the New Testament''. Greenwood Press 1975, 1957. *B. Reike, "Remarques sur l'histoire de la forme (Formgeschichte) des textes de Qumran," in ''Les Manuscrits de la Mer Morte. Colloque de Strasbourg'' 25-27 Mai 1955 (ed. J. Danielou; Paris:

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, 1957), 37-44, esp. 4iff.Miller, Shem. “The Oral-Written Textuality of Stichographic Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” ''Dead Sea Discoveries'', vol. 22, no. 2, 2015, p. 186. fn 9
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reicke, Bo Ivar Swedish biblical scholars 1914 births 1987 deaths Scientists from Stockholm Stockholm University alumni Academic staff of the University of Basel