If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche

If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche

13. What have We Done and Where are We Moving? Personal Remarks about a Change of Paradigm

If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche

Niels Peter Lemche [+-]
University of Copenhagen
Niels Peter Lemche, has been publishing in the field of Old Testament studies for fifty years. He has been both Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, from 1978 to 1986 and Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1987 to 2013. He is the founder of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, and a member of the board of the Copenhagen International Seminar (Routledge). He has recently edited (in co-operation with Dr. Jim West) Jeremiah in History and Tradition (Routledge, 2019).

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The first part of a resumé of “what happened” when the Copenhagen School took over. It was first published in 1994. The second half which follows here, takes up the thread, however after another twenty years. It is tripartite, with three interconnected essays on the past, the present and the future. The past gives an expression of how theories current in those days were undermined by new studies by students in Copenhagen establishing the fact “that we have all been brainwashed by the deuteronomists” –adopting uncritically their historical narrative, the second centers about the situation c.1990 when everything seemed to be in shambles, while the third part includes “prophecies” about how Old Testament studies would develop in the future.

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Lemche, Niels Peter. 13. What have We Done and Where are We Moving? Personal Remarks about a Change of Paradigm. If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. May 2024. ISBN 9781800504363. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44804. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.44804. May 2024

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