Rudolf Bultmann - online (Jesus, tradition, myth, Israel, Christianity)

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I recently discovered that I am part of the third generation of scholars from Rudolf Bultmann, so I am going back to my roots. My teachers now are David Balch and Lyn Osiek, who were students of Kasemann and Koester, who were both students of Bultmann. I've always liked Bultmann, and understand him to be the most important NT scholar of the past century.

I will post his available work here.

Both of these works are condensed.

Kerygma and Myth
Jesus and the Word

[doppelgänger]

And Rudolph Bultmann was a student of . . . ?



That's right . . . Kevin Bacon!

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Originally Posted by doppelgänger

And Rudolph Bultmann was a student of . . . ?



That's right . . . Kevin Bacon!

HA! I can't remember who it was, but Bultmann's teacher was a badass too.

[angellous_evangellous]

Here we go:

Hermann Gunkel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gunkel became an outstanding representative of the "History of Religion School" (die religionsgeschichtliche Schule). This was a circle of scholars from Göttingen who shared assumptions regarding the analysis of the development of religion. In addition to Gunkel, the original group also included Albert Eichhorn, William Wrede, Wilhelm Bousset, Johannes Weiss, Ernst Troeltsch, Wilhelm Heitmüller, and P. Wernle. In the beginning they were primarily concerned with the origins of Christianity, but this interest eventually broadened to include the historical backgrounds of ancient Israelite and other Near Eastern religions. He is sometimes called the father of form criticism and of tradition history, critical methodologies that his work had helped develop. A large part of his literary production was written nevertheless in an apparent effort to reach a broader public.

Wilhelm Bousset was one of Bultmann's teachers... not sure who tutored him for his dissertation, but I will know soon.