Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2009
Abstract
The essay deals with the question of how Old Testament theology copes with history. The winding road from J.
P. Gabler's assignment of Biblical theology to the domain of history, through the reaction to this adjunction by scholars influenced by Karl Barth, is introduced chronologically.
However, Gerhard von Rad, one of the Barthians in Germany, comes up with a new appreciation of historical narration as the way Israel speaks about its God. Recently, this approach obtained a theoretical backing from the angle of anthropology, describing narrativity as a particular way of making sense of the world around us, on the same level as a systematic description of it.