Brevard Childs

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Brevard Springs Childs (born September 2, 1923 in Columbia , South Carolina , † June 23, 2007 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American Old Testament scholar . From 1958 to 1999 he was an Old Testament professor at Yale University . After 1992 he was a Sterling Professor at Yale. Childs is considered one of the most influential Bible scholars of the 20th century. He was married to Ann Childs. In 1994 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Theological influences

Childs was strongly influenced by Karl Barth and by Hermann Gunkels form-historical consideration of biblical texts.

Childs Contribution to Theological Science

Childs is best known for his exegesis of the biblical canon ("canonical criticism"), a form of understanding the Bible or biblical hermeneutics that takes the text of the Bible seriously in its final stage. Childs himself was not a friend of these terms (“canonical interpretation”, “canon criticism”, etc.) because he was convinced that his approach opened up a completely new approach that would replace the entire historical-critical method . Childs laid out his approach in 1970 in Biblical Theology in Crisis and applied it in 1979 in Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture . The latter became "one of the most discussed books of the 1980s".

Christopher Seitz asserted that "Professor Childs single-handedly made major and lasting changes in the conceptual framework of modern biblical research by invoking the presentation of biblical scriptures in the canon and the theological implications of considering their final form."

Academic degrees

Publications

  • Myth and Reality in the Old Testament , SCM Press: London 1960.
  • Biblical Theology in Crisis , Westminster John Knox Press: Louisville (Kentucky) 1970, ISBN 0-664-22143-2
  • The Book of Exodus: A Critical, Theological Commentary , Westminster John Knox Press: Louisville (Kentucky) 1974.
  • Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture , London / Philadelphia 1979.
  • Old Testament Theology in a Canonical Context , Fortress press: Minneapolis 1985.
  • Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible , London / Philadelphia 1993, ISBN 0-8006-2675-3
  • Isaiah: A Commentary , Westminster John Knox Press: Louisville, Kentucky 2001.
  • The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture , Wm. B. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel R. Driver: Biography ( Memento from September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Obituary ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Yale University  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yale.edu
  3. ^ Daniel R. Driver,Brevard Childs: Biblical Theologian: For the Church's One Bible, Tübingen 2010.
  4. ^ Brevard S. Childs: Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture , SCM: 1979, pp. 82-83.
  5. ^ Tremper Longman: Old Testament Commentary Survey , 2nd ed., Grand Rapids 1999, p. 19.
  6. ^ Obituary of the Society of Biblical Literature
personal data
SURNAME Childs, Brevard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Childs, Brevard Springs (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2007
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut