Legends of Genesis

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Religion, Literary Criticism

Authors: Hermann Gunkel In Year : 1901

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Legends of Genesis

Chapter 1 - The Significance and Scope of the Legends
Chapter 2 - The Varieties of the Legends
Chapter 3 Part 1 - The Literary Form of the Legends
Chapter 3 Part 2 - The Literary Form of the Legends
Chapter 3 Part 3 - The Literary Form of the Legends
Chapter 4 Part 1 - History of the Development of the Legends in Oral Tradition
Chapter 4 Part 2 - History of the Development of the Legends in Oral Tradition
Chapter 5 - Jahvist, Elohist, Jehovist, Later Collections
Chapter 6 - Priestly Codex and Final Redaction

The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance to the authors. Gunkel also uses form criticism to uncover buried clues as to the constituent sources of the text. Gunkel offers his hypothesis to explain how the various sources came to be combined and redacted, and how the text later came to be attributed to Moses. (Summary by JoeD)