TY - JOUR AU - Lemche, Niels Peter PY - 2014/05/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Après le déluge: Københavnerskolen eller kaos? JF - Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift JA - DTT VL - 77 IS - 2 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/dtt.v77i2.105708 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/105708 SP - 98-120 AB - <p>The article is based on the author’s farewell address at the University<br />of Copenhagen and includes a review of recent scholarship in the<br />light of the achievements of the Copenhagen School. The changes of<br />paradigm from classical historical-critical scholarship to contemporary<br />Old Testament scholarship after le déluge which was the Copenhagen<br />School are considerable. First of all the link previously assumed between<br />a text in the Old Testament and what really happened in Palestine in<br />ancient times has been broken when we realized that there is actually in<br />the case of the Old Testament so little that unites history with narrative<br />that it is misleading to understand biblical historiography as “history”.<br />It is a story about the past, a kind of cultural memory, and to those who<br />wrote these stories about the past, the real past was not very important.<br />Another result of the contribution of the Copenhagen School relates<br />to the dating of biblical literature that was hardly collected before the<br />Hellenistic Period, and probably not in Jerusalem or in Palestine. Therefore,<br />with the retirement of the last original member of the Copenhagen<br />School it is a totally different scene in Old Testament studies which<br />remains, not because everyone accepts the theses of the school but because it has set the agenda for present and future discussion.</p> ER -