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Additional authors

1. Society of Biblical Literature. Form Criticism Seminar.

Description

1. xiii, 439 pages; 22 cm.

Series statement

1. Society of Biblical Literature. Dissertation series, no. 9

Uniform title

1. Dissertation series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 9.

Alternative title

1. Traditions of Israel

Subject

1. Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History > Modern period, 1500-
2. Bible
3. Bibel
4. Since 1500
5. 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament
6. Traditionsgeschichtliche Forschung
7. Traditiegeschiedenis
8. Oude Testament

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History
3. History (form)

Contents

1. Traditio Et Traditum -- Aspects of traditio -- Aspects of traditum -- What is "tradition history"? -- previous understandings -- definition of tradition and of tradition history -- methodology -- yield -- Scope and method of the present study -- Part One: The rise of the tradition-historical research of the Old Testament (Excluding Scandinavian contributions) -- Richard Simon and the awakening to the problem of Old Testament tradition -- background -- Simon's critical research -- understanding of tradition -- influence on later researchers -- The era of source criticism: general neglect of the precompositional stage -- the beginnings of source criticism -- Johann Gottfried Herder: impulses from Romanticism -- Johann Christoph Nachtigal: Recognition of precompositional developments -- Julius Wellhausen: The documentary hypothesis and tradition -- August Klostermann: The crystallization hypothesis and public recital -- Hermann Gunkel and the recognition of the importance of ancient traditions -- The influence of Albert Eichhorn
2. Noth -- 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 -- tradition-historical study of the Deuteronomist's and of the Chronicler's compositions -- the Deuteronomistc history -- the Chronicler's history -- history of Israel -- summary -- Some examples of recent tradition-historical studies -- Hartmut Gese on Ezekiel 40-48 -- Wolfgang Richter on Judges 3-9 -- Odil Hannes Steck's history of a nation -- Critical reaction to tradition-historical research -- The dependency of tradition-historical analysis on other investigative procedures -- The issue of external evidence -- tradition-historical criteria and the question of historicity -- The question of tradition-historical overkill -- overextension of the method -- implausibility of the results -- the need for a basic trust in the traditional outline of history -- the necessity of avoiding modern cultural presuppositions -- summary
3. Part two: The Scandinavian debate on tradition-historical problems -- preliminary problems -- the beginnings -- Sigmund Mowinckel's early work on prophetic tradition -- Johannes Pedersen: initial opposition to literary criticism -- Ivar Hylander and basic problems of method -- the tradition-critical task -- literary criticism and tradition history -- 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 -- Harris Birkeland: establishing this thesis and demonstrating its consequences -- Johannes Lindblom's research: evidence of the force of these ideas -- the prophetic literature -- tradition history of the book of Job -- Sigmund Mowinckel's further studies -- the indispensable work of literary criticism -- the rise of the prophetic literature -- oral tradition as the foundation -- the prophetic word as authoritative -- interpretation and actualization among the disciples -- creation of the written literature -- summary -- Ivan Engnell: the center of the debate -- Engnell's tradition-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 to literary forms -- tradition history as an alternative to literary criticism -- traditional history of the Pentateuch -- Prophesy and tradition: Mowinckel vs. Engnell
4. New Direction -- Schöpfung und Chaos: Impulses from religions geschichte -- Commentary on Genesis: impulses from Gattungsgeschichte -- From Hugo Gresssmann to Albrecht alt: securing and extending the foundation -- Hugo Grebmann and tradition criticism -- Early understanding of oral tradition -- Albrecht Alt's fundamental contributions -- Gerhard Von Rad and Martin Noth: the fathers of tradio-historical research -- Von Rad -- The form-critical problem of the Hexateuch -- point of departure -- the tradition-historical independence of the Sinai tradition from Exodus-conquest complex -- The fusion of the tradition complexes by the Jahwist -- 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 saga -- Theology of the Old Testament -- The subject matter: Israel's testimonies to Jahweh's involvement in history -- Theological reception of the tradio-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
5. Mowinckel -- the need for both tradition-historical and literary-critical research -- the critical stratification of the tradition -- source analysis of oral tradition -- general principles of Israelite tradition -- Engnell -- limiting the range of oral tradition -- Ipsissima verba and tradition -- the analytical task -- general principles of tradition history -- the result of the debate -- Engnell's subsequent work -- oral tradition -- "primary" vs. "secondary " elements -- the tradition-historical method -- the primacy of tradition-historical research -- The "Uppsala circle" -- Alfred Haldar: prophetic circles and transmission -- associations of cult prophets -- prophetic tradition and transmission -- Geo Wildengren's refutation of the thesis of a predominant oral tradition -- the importance of writing in the ancient near east -- supportive evidence -- Mesopotamia -- Arabic cultures -- the Old Testament -- conclusions -- Helmer Ringgren -- oral transmission as explanation for certain variant readings -- the place of tradition history in Old Testament research -- Gösta W. Ahlströ -- tradition history of Psalms 89 -- the "oral/written" debate -- R.A. Carlson on Second Samuel -- tradition-historical method and scope -- a pre-Deuteronomic Davidic epic -- compositional analysis of Second Samuel -- evaluation of his tradition-historical analysis
6. The influence of and response to the Uppsala circle -- Aage Bentzen -- Hypothesis of hexateuchal stratification -- Israel and ancient near eastern motifs -- The Book of Daniel -- summary -- Arvis. S. Kapelrud -- the origin of the Ezra-narrative -- Pentateuch miscellanea -- origin and development of the Book of Joel -- Eduard Nielsen -- the thesis of a predominant oral tradition -- tradition history of the decalogue -- tradition-historical analysis -- Margne Saebö on Deutero-Zechariah -- analytical orientation and procedure -- text criticism understood tradition-historically -- form criticism understood tradition-historically -- preliminary conclusions about composition and background -- summary -- Critique -- oral composition and transmission -- the question of reliability -- comparative evidence -- the critical analysis of "oral literature" -- the stage of literary fixation -- the Scandinavian contributions -- the importance of religio-historical studies -- on the divine-kingship ideology -- constitutive elements of the traditum -- general contribution and the present state of the research.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Cover title: The traditions of Israel.
2. Originally presented as the author's thesis, Göttingen, 1972.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 401-428.