Hermann Gunkel (1862–1932)
Author of The legends of Genesis, the Biblical saga and history
About the Author
Hermann Gunkel, a high-ranking biblical scholar, was born in Springe, Germany, near Hanover, and obtained his formal education at the Universities of Gottingen, Giessen, and Leipzig. After teaching New Testament for one year at Gottingen in 1888, Gunkel devoted the rest of his academic career to show more Old Testament studies at Halle (1889--93), Berlin (1894--1907), and Giessen (1907--20) before returning to Halle (1920--27). Gunkel's methodological insights and conclusions are most readily evident in two masterful commentaries on Genesis (1901) and Psalms (1926). Above all, Gunkel emphasized the significance of the community as opposed to individual biblical authors and spelled out the ways in which tradition is handed down orally within the community. His isolation of various family and cultic legends in the book of Genesis and his identification of different types of psalmic composition---such as the psalm of individual thanksgiving, royal psalm, and hymn---in the book of Psalms has assuredly shaped subsequent scholarly treatment of not only these two key Old Testament books but also other books in the biblical canon. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Hermann Gunkel
Creation And Chaos in the Primeval Era And the Eschaton: A Religio-historical Study of Genesis 1 and Revelation 12… (2006) 57 copies
Introduction to Psalms: The Genres of the Religious Lyric of Israel (Mercer Library of Biblical Studies) (1998) 49 copies
The Influence of the Holy Spirit: The Popular View of the Apostolic Age and the Teaching of the Apostle Paul (1979) 29 copies
Folk-tale in the Old Testament (Historic Texts and Interpreters in Biblical Scholarship,) (1987) 9 copies
Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit: Eine religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung über Gen. 1 und Ap. Joh. 12 (1895) 6 copies
I profeti 3 copies
Das märchen im Alten Testament 2 copies
Mi - R 1 copy
I - Me 1 copy
Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart; Handwörterbuch für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft 1 copy
S - Z 1 copy
Genesis / Ubersetzt und erklart von Hermann Gunkel ; mit einem Geleitwort von Walter Baumgartner (1966) 1 copy
Urgeschichte und die Patriarchen (das erste Buch Mois) [Schriften des Alten Testaments, 1. Abteilung, 1. Band] (1921) 1 copy
Registerband 1 copy
Ein Vorläufer Jesu 1 copy
Die Propheten 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Gunkel, Hermann
- Birthdate
- 1862
- Date of death
- 1932
- Gender
- male
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