Karl Ludwig Schmidt asserted that the accounts of the New Testament were to be regarded as fixed written versions of oral Gospel tradition.Professoren der Universität Basel aus fünf Jahrhunderten: - Page 386 Andreas Staehelin - 1960 "KARL LUDWIG SCHMIDT 1891-1956 Von 1935 bis 1953 ordentlicher Professor für neutestamentliche Wissenschaft. ... Er lehrte die Erzählungen der Evangelien als schriftlich fixierte mündliche Tradition betrachten, deren geographischer, ..." Using form criticism, Schmidt showed that an editor had assembled the narrative out of individual scenes that did not originally have a chronological order.Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz. The historical Jesus: a comprehensive guide. Fortress Press. 1998. translated from German (1996 edition). pp. 5-7
