Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan

Download or read book Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan written by Paul Michael Kurtz and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back cover: What did biblical scholars, theologians, orientalists, philologists, and ancient historians of the 19th century consider "religion" and "history" to be? How did they understand these conceptual categories, and why did they study them in the manner they did? Analyzing the figures of Julius Wellhausen and Hermann Gunkel, Paul Michael Kurtz examines the historiography of ancient Israel in the German Empire through the prism of religion, as a structuring framework not only for writings on the past but also for the writers of that past themselves.