The growth of the Biblical tradition : the form-critical method / Klaus Koch ; translated from the second German edition by S.M. Cupitt. [print]

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Translation of Was ist Formgeschichte? Neue Wege der Bibelexegese.

Includes bibliographical references.

PennsylvaniaRT I: THE MaineTHODS -- Literary types and formulas -- A note on modern language usage -- New Testament example: the Beatitudes -- Old Testament example: the Decalogue -- The bounds imposed by the literary type, literary originality, and the inspiration of the Bible -- The problem of literary types in general literary scholarship -- The determination of literary types and style criticism -- The history of literary types -- Changes undergone by the blessing -- Changes undergone by apodictic series of prohibitions -- A look at other languages of the ancient world -- Complex literary types and component literary types -- Attempts at a survey of Old and New Testament literary types -- Setting in life -- Literature and life -- Background to the blessing -- Background to apodictic series of prohibitions -- Relationship to ancient oriental and Hellenistic cultic and social history -- The persistence of literary types and their transition to other settings in life -- The history of the transmission of tradition -- The different stages in the development of single units -- The Beatitudes -- The Decalogue -- The first steps in an investigation into the background of a text -- Changes in the units which make up complex literary types -- The question of the the historicity of narratives -- The history of motifs -- Redaction history -- Return to the final stages of the tradition -- -- The position of the beatitudes in the gospels - The Decalogue's position in the historical writings and books of the law -- The history of research -- Literary criticism and form criticism -- The determination of sources -- Modern literary criticism's concept of history -- A wider range through form criticism -- A change in the concept of history -- The discovery of the kerygmatic nature of certain writings -- The abiding significance of literary criticism -- The debate about oral transmission -- The tradition history school -- Oral tradition in Old Testament texts -- The importance of written records in the Old Testament -- The relation between oral and written transmission in the Old Testament -- Oral and written tradition in the early Christian environment -- Oral tradition in the New Testament -- General exegetical consequences -- Characteristics of Hebrew poetry -- Parallelismus membrorum -- The structure of poems and songs -- Short verse series -- The role of poetry in Israel -- Metrics -- The canon, and a literary and linguistic history of the Bible -- The relevance of transmission history for the church -- The scheme for a literary history of the Bible -- The history of Biblical interpretation and the history of language.

PennsylvaniaRT II: SELECTED EXAMPLES -- The ancestress of Israel in danger -- Defining the unit -- Determination of the literary type -- Transmission history -- Setting in life -- Redaction history -- Saul and David in the wilderness -- Defining the literary unit -- Determination of the literary type and Setting in life -- Transmission history -- Redaction history -- Sagas in the Bible? -- General characteristics -- Two stages in the development of the Saga in Israel -- The saga as the expression of a particular way of thinking -- Theological evaluation -- The hymn -- Characteristics of the literary type -- Setting in life -- History of the literary type -- Transmission and redaction history -- The individual song of lament, and the oracle assuring the worshiper his lament has been heard -- Determination of the literary type -- Setting in life -- History of the literary type -- Transmission and redaction history -- Ahaziah's fall -- Legends of the prophets -- The literary type -- Transmission history -- Official speech between those of different standing, and the messenger formula -- Prophecy of disaster to the individual -- Redaction history -- Legends -- Political legends and cult legends -- The legend as the expression of a particular way of thinking -- The yoke of the king of Babylon -- Legends and biography of the prophets -- The prophecy of disaster to the individual -- The prophecy of disaster to the nation -- The prophecy of salvation -- The reception of a prophet himself -- The pronouncement accompanying a symbolic action -- History of the literary type of the prophecy -- The structure of the prophecy of disaster -- The structure of the prophecy of salvation -- Parallels outside Israel -- Comparison with the message -- Setting in life.