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The growth of the Biblical tradition : the form-critical method / tr. from the 2nd German ed by S.M. Cupitt the form-critical method / tr. from the 2nd German ed. by S. M. Cupitt. - New York : Toronto : London : Scribner Collier Macmillan Canada Black, 1969. - xv, 233 p. ; 23 cm. - Scribner studies in biblical interpretation .

Translation of: Was ist Formgeschichte?.

Bibliographical footnotes.

The methods: Section One: Fundamentals: Literary types and formulas -- The history of literary types -- Setting in life -- The history of the transmission of tradition -- Redaction history
Section two: A Wider view: Literary criticism and form criticism -- The debate about oral transmission -- Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry -- The Canon, and a literary and linguistic history of the Bible
Part II: Selected examples: Section One: From the narrative books: The ancestress of Israel in danger -- Saul and David in the Wilderness -- Sagas in the Bible?
Section two: From the Songs: The Hymn -- The individual song of lament, and the oracle assuring the worshiper his lament has been heard
Section three: From the Prophetic writings: Ahaziah's fall -- Legends -- The yoke of the king of Babylon -- History of the literary type of the Prophecy

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Bible--Criticism, Form.

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