Double Narratives in the Old Testament: The Foundations of Method in Biblical Criticism

✍ Scribed by Aulikki Nahkola

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 290
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A study of the importance of variant forms of Old Testament narratives in prompting the development of the criticism of the Bible.

The recognition of the recurrence of stories in variant forms in the Old Testament has been seminal to the birth and development of biblical criticism. The author assesses the role of the “double narrative phenomenon” in the evolution of Old Testament methodology, from its earliest documentary theories to its most recent literary ones, with the help of current literary, folklore and textual studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Double Narratives in the Rise and Development of Biblical Criticism
1.1 Early Biblical Criticism
1.2 Source Criticism: Wellhausen
1.3 Source Criticism After Wellhausen
1.4 Form and Tradition-historical Criticism: Gunkel
1.5 Form and Tradition-historical Criticism After Gunkel
1.6 Scandinavian Scholarship
1.7 Koch, Van Seters
1.8 “Holistic” Approaches to Double Narratives
1.9 Summary
Chapter 2: Double Narratives as Indicators of Documents or Literary Artistry
2.1 The Nature of Biblical Criticism: The Role of Models in Methodology
2.2 The “Nature” Model: Spinoza
2.3 The “Archivist-Historian”: Simon and Astruc
2.4 “The Historian”: Wellhausen
2.5 “Literary Artist”: Alter
Chapter 3: Double Narratives as Oral Variants
3.1 Oral Genres and the Old Testament Narrative
3.2 Old Testament Narrative Genres as Oral Genres: A Reevaluation
3.3 Oral Composition and Transmission: The Dynamics of Variant Development
3.4 Gunkel’s Concept of Oral Variants: An Evaluation
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4: Double Narratives: Towards a Definition
4.1 Double Narrative Terminology in Old Testament Scholarship
4.2 Towards a Definition
4.3 Literary and Textual Variants
4.4 Appraisal
4.5 Textual Variants and Double Narratives – An Interface?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index 1: Biblical References
Index 2: Authors
Index 3: Subjects