Hedegård, Oskar David Leonard°

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HEDEGÅRD, OSKAR DAVID LEONARD°

HEDEGÅRD, OSKAR DAVID LEONARD ° (1891–1971), Swedish theologian. Hedegård edited and translated Seder R. Amram Ga'on for his doctoral dissertation (1951). He held various educational posts in the Swedish church and wrote a series of popular publications and handbooks on sacred history and New Testament theology. He co-edited (with A. Saarisalo) a Swedish interpreter's dictionary of the Bible, Biblisk uppslagsbok, en handbok för bibelläsare (1939, 19583). His two-volume Nya Testamentet på vår tids språk (1964–65), consists of several New Testament books translated into modern idiom.

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