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The Place of the Gospels in the General History of Literature

by Schmidt Karl Ludwig Schmidt, Riches John Riches

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm

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Karl Ludwig Schmidt's classic Die Stellung der Evangelien der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte was one of a handful of twentieth-century essays on the New Testament to set the agenda for an entire generation of New Testament scholars. First published in 1923, the text laid out Schmidt's contention that the gospels represent a literary genre that does not derive from others in the ancient world. In portraying the gospels as the written record of an oral tradition rather than as biographical or historical text, the German scholar found points of comparison with Sayings of the Desert Fathers and the later collections of Faust legends. Schmidt's powerful argument has commanded attention in Germany for decades but has never before been fully available in English. In recent years the question of gospel genre has reemerged as an issue of debate. With this translation, Byron R. McCane enables a new generation of English-speaking scholars to engage with Schmidt's classic perspective on an enduring question. In an introduction to the volume, John Riches places Schmidt's landmark study in its context. He locates the text among the writings of the form critics, with whom Schmidt allied himself, and relates it to Schmidt's own still untranslated study of the topography and chronology of the gospels. He documents the essay's reception in the English-speaking world and critically examines the way Schmidt is understood in present-day discussion of the genre of the gospels. Riches also explores how recent efforts to classify the gospels as ancient biographies have in many ways misread and misrepresented Schmidt's views - errors that this translation will help rectify.
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  • Authors

    Schmidt Karl Ludwig Schmidt +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Wipf and Stock

  • Published

    September 2020

  • Weight

    182g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725285415

  • ISBN-10

    172528541X

  • Eden Code

    5307495

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