Author: Hermann Gunkel

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Die Gattungen der religiösen Lyrik Israels. Dies ist die 6. Auflage von Hermann Gunkels »Die Psalmen«.              …

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ARE the narratives of Genesis history or legend? For the modern historian this is no longer an open question; nevertheless it is important to get a clear notion of the bases of this modern position. …

Franz Delitzsch’s lectures in 1902 and 1903 set off the Babel-Bible controversy, which rocked Europe and North America. In this searing critique of Delitzsch, Gunkel provides his own analysis of the …

‘Elijah, Yahweh, and Baal is a masterpiece presented with authority by a twentieth-century accomplished and unsurpassed exegete. It is now translated by a disciple, whose elegant rendition sounds as …

Every new archaeological discovery in the Middle East bears further witness to the stature of ‘one of the most remarkable Old Testament scholars of modern times, ‘ as Hurman Gunkel is characterized b …

Franz Delitzsch’s lectures in 1902 and 1903 set off the Babel-Bible controversy, which rocked Europe and North America. In this searing critique of Delitzsch, Gunkel provides his own analysis of the …

ARE the narratives of Genesis history or legend? For the modern historian this is no longer an open question; nevertheless it is important to get a clear notion of the bases of this modern position. …

For presenting to the English-speaking public this translation an explanation is scarcely necessary. Since the days of Ferdinand Christian Baur no theological controversy has so agitated Germany as h …

Das dritte Buch Esra besteht zum größten Teil aus Abschnitten, die dem kanonischen Esra und Nehemias im allgemeinen entsprechen. Eigentümlich ist dem Buch die Erzählung von einem Wettstreit der Leibp …

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Foreword by Peter Machinist Hermann Gunkel’s groundbreaking Schöpfung und Chaos, originally published in German in 1895, is here translated in its entirety into English for the first time. Even …

Gunkel’s classic work of 1917 is a systematic investigation of the Old Testament in the light of the then emerging principles of folktale scholarship; he makes use, for example, not only of the contr …