On the Way to Canon: Creative Tradition History in the Old Testament

409 Pages·1998·20.4 MB·English

by  Magne Sæbø

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
191
Editors
David J.A. Clines
Philip R. Davies
Executive Editor
John Jarick
Editorial Board
Robert P. Carroll, Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exum,
John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald,
Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller
Sheffield Academic Press
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On the Way to Canon
Creative Tradition History
in the Old Testament
Magne Saebo
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Supplement Series 191
Copyright © 1998 Sheffield Academic Press
Published by
Sheffield Academic Press Ltd
Mansion House
19KingfieldRoad
Sheffield SI 19AS
England
Typeset by Sheffield Academic Press
and
Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain
by Bookcraft Ltd
Midsomer Norton, Bath
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
ISBN 1-85075-927-8
To
Teol. D. George W. Anderson DD
prominent scholar, colleague, friend
... the reinterpretation (sometimes the radical reinterpretation)
of the ancient traditions of Israel gives vivid expression to the
living relationship between tradition and the continuing life of
the community which inherited and interpreted it. Without this
awareness of the interaction between tradition and interpreta-
tion the Old Testament cannot be understood.
George W. nder
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CONTENTS
Preface 11
Acknowledgments 13
Abbreviations 16
Chapter 1
TRADITIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 21
Parti
OLD TESTAMENT TEXT HISTORY
AS TRADITION HISTORY
Chapter 2
FROM PLURIFORMITY TO UNIFORMITY: THE EMERGENCE
OF THE MASSORETIC TEXT 36
Chapter 3
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT HISTORY OF LEVITICUS
AND THE VALUE OF SOME CAIRO GENIZAH VARIANTS 47
Part II
TRADITION HISTORY: SOME TEXTS
Chapter 4
DIVINE NAMES AND EPITHETS IN GENESIS 49.24B-25A:
METHODOLOGICAL AND TRADITIO-HISTORICAL REMARKS 58
Chapter 5
GOD'S NAME IN EXODUS 3.13-15: AN EXPRESSION
OF REVELATION OR OF VEILING? 78
8 On the Way to Canon
Chapter 6
FORM-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ISAIAH 7.3-9 93
Chapter 7
TRADITIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ISAIAH 8.9-10:
AN ATTEMPT TO CLARIFY AN OLD CRUX INTERPRETUM 108
Chapter 8
FROM EMPIRE TO WORLD RULE: SOME REMARKS
ON PSALMS 72.8; 89.26; ZECHARIAH 9.10B 122
Chapter 9
WHO IS 'THE MAN' IN LAMENTATIONS 3.1? 131
Part III
TRADITION HISTORY: THEOLOGICAL THEMES
Chapter 10
PRIESTLY THEOLOGY AND PRIESTLY CODE: THE CHARACTER
OF THE PRIESTLY LAYER IN THE PENTATEUCH 144
Chapter 11
REFLECTIONS ON OLD TESTAMENT ETHICS: ITS DUAL
CHARACTER AND ITS MODERN APPLICATION 162
Chapter 12
REVELATION IN HISTORY AND AS HISTORY: OBSERVATIONS
ON A TOPICAL THEME FROM AN OLD TESTAMENT POINT
OF VIEW 182
Chapter 13
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 'MESSIANISM' AND
'ESCHATOLOGY' IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: AN ATTEMPT
AT A TERMINOLOGICAL AND FACTUAL CLARIFICATION 197
Chapter 14
OLD TESTAMENT APOCALYPTIC IN ITS RELATION TO
PROPHECY AND WISDOM: THE VIEW OF
GERHARD VON RAD RECONSIDERED 232
Contents 9
Part IV
FROM PLURIFORM TRADITION HISTORY
TO THEOLOGICAL UNITY
Chapter 15
FROM COLLECTIONS TO BOOK: A NEW APPROACH TO
THE HISTORY OF TRADITION AND REDACTION
OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS 250
Chapter 16
FROM THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE COLLECTIVE: A PATTERN
OF INNER-BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION 259
Chapter 17
ON THE CANONICITY OF THE SONG OF SONGS 271
Chapter 18
FROM 'UNIFYING REFLECTIONS' TO THE CANON: ASPECTS
OF THE TRADITIO-HISTORICAL FINAL STAGES IN
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT 285
PartV
WRITING THE HISTORY OF TRADITIONS:
SCHOLARS OF THREE CENTURIES
Chapter 19
JOHANN PHILIPP GABLER AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY: HISTORY AND THEOLOGY 310

Chapter 20
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH AT THE END OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY: THEOLOGY AND HISTORY
AND SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION 327
Chapter 21
SIGMUND MOWINCKEL IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY: LITERARY CRITICISM
AND TRADITION HISTORY 336