[b-hebrew] A different generation of biblical scholarship

LM Barre l_barre at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 2 15:42:07 EST 2009


I simply wished to say that my particular brand of scholarship is of 1986 vintage, at which time I received my doctorate.  We were asking the big questions.  Pentateuchal studies was divided into studies of J, E and P.  We were also working on the Deuteronomistic Historian and the Deuteronomic school.  In fact, there was intense interests in all the biblical literature--wisdom literature, hymnic literature, post-exilic literature.  Methodology was discussed--form criticism, tradition history, source criticism, rhetorical criticism and so on.  In this sense, then, I am a traditionalist who is out of step with what largely goes on here at b-Hebrew.  I do not understand what the task is here.  Can someone speak to what is going on here?  It eludes me.

 
Lloyd Barré
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