The Old Testament and Folklore Study
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 1988
152 pages
978-0-567-60690-7 (ISBN)
Description
Since Gunkel, folklore studies have exercised a great influence upon theories of oral composition and transmission of the patriarchal narratives. Dr Kirkpatrick subjects the underlying premises supporting many of these theories to a careful examination in the light of the most recent folklore research.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-60690-7 (9780567606907)
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Patricia G. Kirkpatrick
The Old Testament and Folklore Study
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03/1988
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P.G. Kirkpatrick is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Old Testament Theology, McGillUniversity and is on the Steering Committee of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Historiography Seminar.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 THE INFLUENCE OF FOLKLORE STUDIES ON CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
- 1. Folklore Studies and the Old Testament
- 2. What is Folklore?
- 3. Folklore Research and its Influence on Old Testament Studies
- 4. The Documentary Hypothesis
- 5. Hermann Gunkel and the Form-Critical Search for an Oral Text
- 6. Tradition-Historical Approaches and the Assumption of Faithful Transmission
- a. Albrecht Alt
- b. G. von Rad and M. Noth
- c. Folklore and the Urtext
- d. Scandinavian Scholarship
- 7. Has Progress been Made in the Understanding of Oral Composition and Transmission?
- Chapter 2 FOLK NARRATIVE: ITS COMPOSITION AND TRANSMISSION
- 1. Oral Narrative Composition
- 2. Oral Narrative Transmission
- 3. Implications for the Study of the Patriarchal Narratives of the Old Testament
- Chapter 3 FOLKLORE STUDIES AND THE GENRE OF THE PATRIARCHAL NARRATIVES
- 1. 'Verbal Art' and the Classification of Written Prose Narrative
- a. Genre Classification
- b. Sage/Saga/Legend/Legende
- c. Prose Narrative Categories
- 2. Folk Narrative and the Biblical Text
- 3. Genre Classification and History
- a. Oral History and the Patriarchal Narratives
- b. Oral Traditions and Historical Reliability
- c. Conclusions
- 4. General Conclusions
- Chapter 4 CONCLUSIONS
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Authors
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