The Philosophy of a Persona

Summary

The essay collects Ian Hunter's central theoretical and methodological arguments from their various interpretative contexts and restates them in order to consider criticisms, real and imagined. Is Hunter's criticism of common forms of philosophical history itself open to such criticism, making its validity dependent upon prior adoption of a philosophical stance? Is his empirical intellectual history a form of ‘social’ reductionism?     

Promise and Blessing: Gen 12,1-3

ABSTRACT

Gen 12,1-3 is a text which plays an important part in the dis-cussion about the establishing of the modern state of Israel. The question is, whether this text defends this event in the 20th century’s history or if one should find the defence elsewhere. In order to find an answer to this question three classic German commentaries have been reread. The commentaries, written by Herman Gunkel (GHAT), Gerhard von Rad (ATD), and Claus Westermann (BKAT), are from different periods of the 20th century. The result is that the commentators find that the text is more interested in the blessing and the promise than in the history of the possession of the land of Canaan.     

Reviews

Else Kragelund Holt &; Kirsten Nielsen (eds.), Bibelkundskab. Introduktion til Det Gamle Testamente. Aarhus Universitetsforlag 1997, pp 317.

Göran Eidevall, Grapes in the Desert. Metaphors, Models, and Themes in Hosea 4–14. CB Old Testament Series 43, Almqvist &; Wiksell, Stockholm 1996, pp xii + 274. ISBN 91 22 01709 7.

Mogens Müller, Det Garnie Testamente som kristen bog, Anis, Frederiksberg 1997, pp 92. ISBN 87 7457 200 8.

March Vervenne (ed.), Studies in the Book of Exodus. Redaction — Reception — Interpretation. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium CXXVI. Leuven University Press‐Uitgeverij Peeters, Leuven 1996, pp xi + 660. ISBN 90 6186 755 X1/90 6831 825 X.     

Biblia hebraica ‐ et Septuaginta

Abstract

The article is a review of and a discussion with M.Müller, The First Bible of the Church. A Plea for the Septuagint (1996). This book holds an excellent rendering of the history of the Septuagint, beginning with the letter of Aris‐teas and ending with Augustin. It is also discussed whether the Septuagint ought to be the text translated in an authorized Christian version of the Old Testament, and it is argued that the Greek text should play as important a rôle in biblical theology as does the Hebrew text The present author answers the first question in the negative (Biblia Hebraica — and Septuaginta) and the second positively (Biblia Hebraica et Septuaginta).