Double Narratives in the Old Testament

The Foundations of Method in Biblical Criticism

Aulikki Nahkola

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110167313
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110870916
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Ancient Religion

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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