TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koch,Klaus
TI  - The growth of the Biblical tradition : the form-critical method / tr. from the 2nd German ed by S.M. Cupitt: the form-critical method 
T2  - Scribner studies in biblical interpretation
SN  - 9780713601350
U1  - 220.6 
PY  - 1969///
CY  - New York, Toronto, London
PB  - Scribner, Collier Macmillan Canada, Black
KW  - Bible
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc-
KW  - Criticism, Form
N1  - 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
ER  -