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It reviews prior research on Hebrew prophetic literature and prose narrative transmission, highlighting how scholarly trends relate to written sources in the Pentateuch and later historical books. 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\nNVMEN,International Review for the History of Religions,Vol.X,fasc.I,I963  \n十CopyriNetherlands.All rights resere reproduced or trans-lated in any foThe Librarym or any other meanszwithofe publisher.ClaremontSchool ofTheology1325 North College AvenueClaremont,CA 91711-3199(909)447-2589PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS  \nTRADITION AND LITERATURE INEARLY JUDAISM AND IN THEEARLY CHURCH  \nBY  \nGEO WIDENGREN  \nUppsala  \n习H.3os ctes8 Bumg~  \nLEIDEN  \nE.J.BRILL1963  \nI.During recent years the problem of oral tradition and writtenliterature has been much discussed in the field of Semitic,and especiallyperhaps Hebrew and Jewish studies.The researches going on in thisfield have mainly concentrated on the more remote periods of Hebrewliterature,the periods when prose narratives were put into writingand when the sayings of the prophets—after being recorded by meansof oral tradition—were written down.It is not necessary to dwellhere on these researches in which I myself have been engaged forabout I5 years.I should only like to mention two books on propheticalliterature in which these problems have been made the central subjects,my own “Literary and Psychological Aspects of the Hebrew Prophets”,published in I948 and sold out since many years,and GUNNEWEG,\"Mündliche und schriftliche Tradition der vorexilischen Propheten-bücher als Problem der neueren Prophetenforschung”from I959.Likeso many other works of recent German exegesis this book lacks ori-ginality,but gives a useful introduction to the discussion.1)  \nConcerning the transmission of prose narratives I should like toemphasize that this kind of literature has attracted considerably moreinterest,probably because the problem at issue here is linked up withthe greater problem of written sources in the Pentateuch and laterhistorical books.As recent expositions of the two diametrically op-posed trends in recent research I may mention here as the represen-tative of one trend NIELSEN,“Oral Tradition A Modern Problem inOld Testament Introduction”,published I954,with which should be  \ncompared the same author's “Schechem.A Traditio-historical Investi-gation”of which the 2nd edition was published in I960.  \nAccording to my opinion NIELSEN is much more to his advantage inthis doctor's thesis of his than in his more general monograph“Oral Tra-dition”.This critical attitude of mine was voiced in the first of a series ofarticles,entitled“Oral Tradition and Written Literature”among theHebrews in the Light of Arabic Evidence,with Special Regard to ProseNarratives”,published in Acta Orientalia,Vol.23/I959.As an outcomeof my research work as a Visiting Lecturer in the Semitics Dept.ofthe University of Leeds last year I hope to be able to publish in a nearfuture the second of this series,dealing in detail with the problems oforal and written sources,the manner of composition of great cycles ofnarration,and the transition from oral tradition to written literature.Apart from a shorter treatment by Prof.GUILLAUME the problem oforal tradition and written transmission in Post-Exilic Judaism had notbeen taken up for investigation and for this reason it was highly wel-come that a very thorough treatment was given to it by a young Upsalascholar,Dr.GERHARDSSON,in his thesis“Manuscript and Memory.Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism andEarly Christianity\",published last year(I96I)  \nGERHARDSSON,being a New Testament scholar,is not interested inthe methods of transmission of Rabbinic Judaism per se,but as provid-ing the necesssary background of the problems of gospel tradition inEarly Christianity.He also gives some references—rather casually by theway—to the relation of oral and written transmission outside RabbinicJudaism.Nevertheless his treatment of Rabbinic Judaism occupies thegreater part of the book(Pp.I9-I89)and may be said to be the morevaluabl","cbCaidMdAc0v1d21","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidMdAc0v1d21","pdf",4153534,48,"English","# Introduction\n## Oral tradition and written literature in Hebrew studies\n## Prophetic literature and prose narratives\n## Review of scholarship: Nielsen and related works\n# Transmission and tradition-minded scholarship\n## Schools of research and methodological stance\n## Transmission in Israel: oral texts and evidence\n## Evaluating references and scholarly omissions","[{\"question\":\"What core problem does the text address?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses how oral tradition relates to written literature in early Judaism and the early Church, especially regarding the transmission of prophetic sayings and prose narratives.\"},{\"question\":\"Which scholars and works are discussed in connection with oral tradition and writing?\",\"answer\":\"The discussion mentions Widengren’s own earlier book on Hebrew prophets and references major studies by Nielsen and Gerhardsson, along with related German exegesis.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author position his own contribution?\",\"answer\":\"The author states that 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