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Rediscovering the traditions of Israel : the development of the traditio-historical research of the Old Testament, with special consideration of Scandinavian contributions
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Title
Rediscovering the traditions of Israel : the development of the traditio-historical research of the Old Testament, with special consideration of Scandinavian contributions / by Douglas A. Knight.
ISBN
0884140555
9780884140559
Edition
Rev. ed.
Published
[Missoula, Mont.] : Society of Biblical Literature : Distributed by Scholars Press, 1975.
Physical Description
xv, 439 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis, Göttingen, 1972.
Includes indexes.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 25, 2021
Series
Dissertation series ; no. 9
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-428).
Contents
Prolegomena
1. Traditio et traditum
Aspects of traditio
Aspects of traditum
2. What is "tradition history"?
A. Previous understandings
B. Definition of tradition and of tradition history
C. Methodology
D. Yield
3. Scope and method of the present study
Part One: The rise of the traditio-historical research of the Old Testament (excluding Scandinavian contributions)
4. Richard Simon and the awakening to the problem of Old Testament tradition
A. Background
B. Simon's critical research
C. Understanding of tradition
D. Influence on later researchers
5. The era of source criticism: General neglect of the precompositional stage
A. The beginnings of source criticism
B. Johann Gottfried Herder: Impulses from Romanticism
C. Johann Christoph Nachtigal: Recognition of precompositional developments
D. Julius Wellhausen: The documentary hypothesis and tradition
E. August Klostermann: The crystallization hypothesis and public recital
6. Hermann Gunkel and the recognition of the importance of ancient traditions
A. The influence of Albert Eichhorn
B. New directions
C. Schopfung und chaos: Impulses from religious-geschichte
D. Commentary on Genesis: Impulses from Gattunga-geschichte
7. Fromm Hugo Gressmann to Albrecht Alt: Securing and extending the foundation
A. Hugo Gressmann and tradition criticism
B. Early understandings of oral tradition
C. Albrecht Alt's fundamental contributions
8. Gerhard Von Rad and Martin Noth: The fathers of traditio-historical research
A. Von Rad
1. The form-critical problem of the Hexateuch
Point of departure
The traditio-historical independence of the Sinai tradition from the Exodus-conquest complex
The fusion of the tradition complexes by the Jahwist
2. Commentary on Genesis
Comparison with Gunkel's commentary on Genesis
Hermeneutical priority of the Jahwist's composition
Tradition history in the service of Old Testament theology
Assessment of Israel's sagas
3. Theology of the Old Testament
The subject matter: Israel's testimonies to Jahweh's involvement in history
THeological reception of the traditio-historical and form-critical methods
Tradition and history
Tradition history and Heilsgeschichte
A traditio-historical relationship between Old Testament and New Testament?
The importance of von Rad's use of tradition history
B. Noth
1. History of the Pentateuchal traditions
Task and point of departure
Isolating the five Pentateuchal themes and the additional elements of tradition
The merging of the themes and the individual traditions
2. Traditio-historical study of the Deuteronomist's and of the Chronicler's compositions
The Deuteronomistic history
The chronicler's history
3. History of Israel
C. Summary
9. Some examples of recent traditio-historical studies
A. Hartmut Gese on Ezekiel 40-48
B. Wolfgang Richter on Judges 3-9
C. Odil Hannes Steck's history of a notion.
10. Critical reaction to traditio-historical research
A. The dependency of traditio-historical analysis and other investigative procedures
The issue of external evidence
Traditio-historical criteria and the question of historicity
B. The question of traditio-historical overkill
Overextension of the method
Implausibility of the results
C. The need for a basic trust in the traditional outline of history
D. The necessity of avoiding modern cultural presuppositions
E. Summary
Part Two: The Scandinavian debate on traditio-historical problems
11. The beginnings
A. Sigmund Mowinckel's early work on prophetic tradition
B. Johannes Pedersen: Initial opposition to literary criticism
C. Ivar Hylander and basic problem of method
The traditio-critical task
Literary criticism and tradition history
D. Henrik Samuel Nyberg: The thesis of a predominant oral tradition
The nature of transmission in Israel
Tradition history of Numbers 16-17
COntributions to the debate
E. Harris Birkeland: Establishing this thesis and demonstrating its consequences
F. Johannes Lindblom's research: Evidence of the force of these ideas
The prophetic literature
Tradition history of the Book of Job
G. Sigmund Mowinckel's further studies
The indispensable work of literary criticism
The rise of the prophetic literature
Summary
12. Ivan Engnell: The center of the debate
A. Engnell's traditio-historical introduction to the Old Testament
The importance given tradition history
Oral tradition and its significance for text criticism
The literary forms
Tradition history as an alternative the literary criticism
Tradition history of the Pentateuch
B. Prophecy and tradition: Mowinckel vs. Engnell
Mowinckel
Engnell
THe result of the debate
C. Engnell's subsequent work
Oral tradition
"Primary" vs. "Secondary" elements
The traditio-historical method
The primacy of traditio-historical research
13. The "Uppsala circle"
A. Alfred Haldar: Prophetic circles and transmission
Associations of cult prophets
Prophetic tradition and transmission
B. Geo Widengren's refutation of the thesis of a predominant oral traidtion
The importance of writing in the ancient Near East
Supportive evidence
Mesopotamia
Arabic cultures
The Old Testament
Conclusions
C. Helmer Ringgren
Oral transmission as explanation for certain variant readings
The place of tradition history in Old Testament research
D. Gosta W. Ahlstrom
Tradition history of Psalm 89
The "oral/written" debate
E.R.A. Carlson on Second Samuel
Traditio-historical method and scope
A pre-Deuteronomic Davidic epic
Compositional analysis of Second Samuel
Evaluation of his traditio-historical analysis
14. The influence of an response to the Uppsala Circle
A. Aage Bentzen
Hypothesis of Hexateuchal stratification
Israel and ancient Near Eastern motifs
The Book of Daniel
Summary
B. Arvid S. Kapelrud
The origin of the Ezra-narrative
Pentateuch miscellanea
Origin and development of the Book of Job
C. Eduard Nielsen
The thesis of a predominant oral tradition
Tradition history of the Decalogue
D. Magner Saebo on Deutero-Zechariah
Analytical orientation and procedure
Text criticism understood traditio-historically
Form criticism understood traditio-historically
Preliminary conclusions about composition and background
Summary
15. Critique
A. Oral composition and transmission
The question of reliability
Comparative evidence
The critical analysis of "oral literature"
The stage of literary fixation
The Scandinavian contributions
B. The importance of religio-historical studies
On the divine-kingship ideology
Constitutive elements of the traditum
C. General contributions and the present state of the research.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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