History of tradition

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Tradition History (also subject story or motive criticism called) as a discipline of historical-critical exegesis of the Bible examined individual terms, phrases, quotes, motifs or themes of the Bible in terms of how they were marked content through their use in voraufgegangener biblical or extra-biblical tradition.

She is concerned with content that does not arise either from the context of the specific application or from the general lexical meaning of the language of the text, but only from a previous tradition that was familiar to the biblical author and which his readers know could be assumed, but can only be inferred by the later scientific exegete with the means of traditional history.

In contrast to the criticism of text , criticism of tradition and criticism of literature , which open up the preliminary stages of the oral and written genesis of its traditional form for the specific application, the history of tradition relates it to previous other applications and examines the resulting contentual character. As far as it is about internal biblical traditions of the Bible, it is particularly about those within the Old Testament, but also about those cases in which New Testament statements are shaped by their connection to the Old Testament tradition and only have their content against the background of the history of this tradition understand are.

literature

  • Wilfrid Haubeck: History of tradition . In: Hans-Werner Neudorfer / Eckard J. Schnabel (ed.), The Study of the New Testament: Introduction to the Methods of Exegesis , exp. and updated edition, Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2006, chap. 8th

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