The Spirit and the Word: Prophecy and Tradition in Ancient Israel (Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies)

This volume brings together some of Mowinckel's most important and interesting work on the prophets. He begins by introducing the reader to the method of tradition history and how it is related to form criticism and literary criticism. From this groundwork, he goes on to explore how this method is essential for analyzing the prophetic literature in the Hebrew Bible.

In order to make it more helpful for students, each essay has been supplemented with additional notes and bibliography to show where the discussion has continued since Mowinckel. A bibliography of Mowinckel's works in English and a bibliography of essays evaluating Mowinckel's contributions are also included. This will provide an excellent supplementary textbook for courses on the prophets.

Key Features:

provides an introduction in Old Testament tradition history

an editor's foreword highlights the importance of Mowinckel's work

includes updated notes and bibliographies

includes chapters not previously published in the U.S.

indexes of ancient sources and authors

K. C. Hanson (PhD Claremont Graduate School) is editor in chief at Wipf and Stock Publishers (Eugene, Oregon), after having taught biblical studies for sixteen years (1982-1998) and working as senior editor for biblical studies at Fortress Press (1998-2005). In addition to writing two volumes in the Proclamation series for Fortress, he compiled and edited seven volumes for Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies. He translated Andre LaCocque's Ruth from the French for the Continental Commentary series (Fortress, 2004) and Renate Bethge's Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life (Fortress, 2003). He also edited Sigmund Mowinckel's Religion and Cult(Cascade, 2012) and translatedand edited Hermann Gunkel's Elijah, Yahweh, and Baal (Cascade, 2014).

Sigmund Mowinckel was Professor of Old Testament at the University of Oslo, Norway, and one of the most important biblical scholars of the twentieth century. Among his many publications in English are He That Cometh (1956), The Old Testament as Word of God (1959), and The Psalms in Israel's Worship (1962).