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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
The books are all commentaries, with individual volumes coming from . . . .
- The Old Testament Library.
- Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching.
- Belief: A Theological Commentary Commentary on the Bible.
Sale prices are $4.99 for each of the Old Testament Library volumes and $3.99 for volumes in the other two series. Folks, the retail prices of these tomes are as high as $56.00 (yes, $56.00)!
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Oh, my! I've been wanting to read Gerhard von Rad's
Genesis commentary for a few years now and didn't realize it was a volume in WJK's
Old Testament Library until I checked the sale page. Von Rad was one of the most important of the
form critics, applying the principles of form criticism to the documentary sources of the Pentateuch in a way that most earlier critics did not. Indeed, current scholar Joel S. Baden considers von Rad's approach to be distinct from form criticism and instead calls it "tradition criticism:"
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The product of the combined efforts of Gerhard von Rad and Martin Noth in the mid-twentieth century, tradition criticism inquires not about the form of the preliterary story but about its content. ... Tradition criticism attempts, in a way not found in form criticism, to attribute a plausible historical scenario to the earliest underlying traditions.
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Unfortunately, von Rad's volume on Deuteronomy isn't on sale, but I'll console myself with
Sara Japhet's
commentary on the Chronicles.