Does old testament scholarship have meaning?
Scholarly activity has lost its liberating function of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Consequently, being an academic is no longer in itself meaningful. The post-enlightenment scholar is struggling to find and hold his place in the community. Also Old Testament scholars have to ask themsel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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SA ePublications
1986
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Old Testament essays
Year: 1986, Volume: 4, Pages: 125-140 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Biblical studies
B Alttestamentliche Hermeneutik |
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| Summary: | Scholarly activity has lost its liberating function of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Consequently, being an academic is no longer in itself meaningful. The post-enlightenment scholar is struggling to find and hold his place in the community. Also Old Testament scholars have to ask themselves the question: cui bono? In this paper an attempt is made at defining the role and with that the meaning - of old Testament scholarship in relation to the scholarly tradition concerned, the community in which the academic work is being done and the students enrolled for the subject. The role of the Old Testament scholar is seen to be traditio-critical (with regard to the scholarly tradition), ideology critical (in relation to the society concerned) and reception critical (with regard to the individual involved in this branch of scholarship), and the function of the discipline as being a process of liberation from idolatry with a view to enabling people to get in touch with the Ultimate in whom our activities are meaningfully embedded. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10.10520/EJC-cfc0a1b40 |