Who comes after Gunkel in Psalm studies? I cannot seem to find a major consensus?
If you can't find a major consensus, then maybe there isn't one. I suppose it depends on what you mean by "who comes after" -- does it need to be someone who was dependent on Gunkel and furthered his work, or do you just want the next person chronologically who wrote on the psalms after Gunkel published his books on them (1926, 1933)? If it was someone good, presumably they would have been familiar with Gunkel and taken his work into account.
One possible name is Sigmund Mowinckel (1884-1965). The three paragraphs on Mowinckel in “Psalms and the Question of Genre,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms begin, "Gunkel’s student Sigmund Mowinckel extended the work of his teacher in the area of the institutional settings from which the Psalms arose. Mowinckel argued that the Psalms, not only the psalm types, originated in the worship of ancient Israel."
Source: William H. Bellinger Jr., “Psalms and the Question of Genre,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms, ed. William P. Brown, Oxford Handbooks (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 315.
Two other significant names are Martin Dibelius (1883-1947) and Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976). The Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters says, "This second generation included, as well as Dibelius, Adolf *Jülicher and especially Bultmann. Dibelius and Bultmann drew on Gunkel’s approach to the Old Testament and especially the Psalms to identify certain literary 'forms' in the Synoptic Gospels in terms of their relation to a given 'setting in life' (Sitz im Leben). Dibelius identified Gunkel’s approach as 'form criticism,' which he and others applied to parables, hymns and other types of literature in the New Testament."
Source: Anthony C. Thiselton and Gerald Sheppard, “Biblical Interpretation in Europe in the Twentieth Century,” in Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, ed. Donald K. McKim (Downers Grove, IL; Nottingham, England: InterVarsity Press, 2007), 78.
These three were a full generation after Gunkel (1862-1932). There might have been someone writing before them, but none that I've come across in my Logos library.
There's an essay "The Book of Psalms and Its Interpreters" that appears as the Foreword in Eerdmans' 2004 edition of Mowinckel's The Psalms in Israel's Worship (pp. xix - xxxii), all pages of which are visible in the free preview on Amazon. It might give you some other names, but it does appear Mowinckel was the most significant one who followed Gunkel.
Hi Rosie
This is great. I already knew about Sigmund Mowinckel but I am looking for essentially evangelical scholarship and its consensus. Since the inception of form criticism, evangelical theology has tried to define its relationship with its main proponent, Hermann Gunkel.
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but I am looking for essentially evangelical scholarship and its consensus.
This precondition is antithetical to scholarship while very appropriate to pastoral and faith formation work. Academically, the evangelical scholarship needs to be studied in context, as responding to the other academic work around it. Or put another way context, context, context . . . The primary form criticism of the psalms is the two volumes of Erhard Gerstenberger's Forms of the Old Testament Literature Series: Psalms, Part 1, with an Introduction to Cultic Poetry (FOTL) | Logos Bible Software
Since the inception of form criticism, evangelical theology has tried to define its relationship with its main proponent, Hermann Gunkel.
Indeed.
With a little more work, you could produce a pretty decent thesis, glueing someone else's sentences together. Then have a footnote for each sentence. How's that?
That was not my intention
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