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Re: Sitz im Leben

From: "Paul W. Traub" <ptraub AT juno.com>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Sitz im Leben
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:02:29 -0400

According to Richard Soulen's HANDBOOK OF BIBLICAL CRITICICISM 2nd. ed.,
it was indeed first applied as a technical term by Gunkel. Although this
is as you suspected, Soulen provides a reference worth reading: Martin J.
Buss, "The Idea of Sitz-im-Leben---History and Critique," ZAW 90(1978)
157-70.

Paul Traub

Sitz im Leben, S. L., 10/25/2002
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