Liturgical Traditions in Mic. 7
The understanding of Mic.7 was helped considerably in the year 1924, when Hermann Gunkel published a study of 7:7-20. In opposition to the predominant literary critical method of separating Biblical material into different sources, Gunkel wanted to use this passage to demonstrate the literary his...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1967]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1967, Volume: 60, Issue: 3, Pages: 349-367 |
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| Summary: | The understanding of Mic.7 was helped considerably in the year 1924, when Hermann Gunkel published a study of 7:7-20. In opposition to the predominant literary critical method of separating Biblical material into different sources, Gunkel wanted to use this passage to demonstrate the literary historical approach which he wished to carry through in the sphere of Old Testament research. His purpose was not to distinguish between primary written sources of a Biblical book, but to observe the representative forms (Gattungen) which occur in the text, to determine the practical basis for the origin of the textual elements and the milieu in which they were transmitted (the Sitz im Leben), and to deal with the text as a whole organically and not mechanically. His approach was in fact what has later come to be known as form criticism. Gunkel brilliantly demonstrated that the whole passage, Mic.7:7-20, can be understood as a homogeneous composition. He thought of a poem in four parts which had been artistically composed and constructed like a liturgy to be used at one of Jerusalem's mourning festivals. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000003813 |