Abstract
The study attempts to combine both the biographical and thematic approaches in order to deal with one of the crucial issues in Daněk's biblical theology, namely, with the question of how to combine the historical-critical method in biblical scholarship with the religious quality and religious perspective of biblical writings and traditions. This question and its solution in Daněk's writings is examined against the historical setting of continental European (especially German) biblical research during the 1920s and 1930s.
His method in differentiating "religious quantities" from "religious qualities" is compared with contemporary statements by H. Gunkel, R.
Kittel, O. Eissfeldt, and W.
Eichrodt. Finally, Daněk's use of the term "tradition" is found to be inventive and pivotal on the one hand, and problematic and not sufficiently developed on the other hand.