Gunkel Funkel

David Paul

I'm bummed...quite disappointed, really. I just finally bought the collection that had Hermann Gunkel's Creation and Chaos in it. As I'm going about my usual routine of placing each of my new resources in the proper folder/shelf of my Library...  [8-|]  

...where all 7000 resources are tidily and properly stored, my research and due diligence discovered something very disturbing. The "commentary" by Gunkel that was included in the Classic Commentaries on Genesis collection--"The Legends of Genesis"--well, you see, IT ISN'T ACTUALLY A COMMENTARY...it's just the introduction to Gunkel's commentary! [:O]

Seriously? Wow, I really can't express how disappointing this is! But that's not all. On the page where "Legends of Genesis" is described there is a bio-blurb about Gunkel, which mentions...

...that Gunkel has a commentary on the Psalms. So does this work by the guy who just happens to be the person who invented form-criticism (!) AND invented the term Sitz im Leben show up in the Classic Commentaries on the Psalms collection? NOPE.

Now I obviously don't expect Logos to offer EVERY item from EVERY author...but I do think it strange that the bio's that Logos creates for their own website don't more consistently inform their own offerings. It's sorta like opening a can of worms and just walking away...

Anyway...back to my  D - I - S - A - P - P - O - I - N - T - M - E - N - T about Gunkel's NON-commentary. So, what is to be done about this? I though I was getting Gunkel's commentary and it turns out I didn't. Do I REbid on this if it ever gets put on CP at some future point, thus purchasing it twice? Will his Psalms commentary ever be available? Hmmmm...

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Mark Barnes

David Paul said:

Anyway...back to my  D - I - S - A - P - P - O - I - N - T - M - E - N - T about Gunkel's NON-commentary. So, what is to be done about this

The product page says "Twelve commentaries and ten other studies on Genesis", and if you count them up, Gunkel was one of the "other studies" (as you'd expect that it's only the introduction). The full commentary wasn't translated until 1997, so it's not going to arrive on CP.

David Paul said:

Will his Psalms commentary ever be available?

He hasn't written a commentary on Psalms, so far as I know. He did write two introductions, one in 1911, and one in 1933. But the only English translations were published by Fortress in 1967, and Mercer in 1998, and therefore both are still in copyright. Again, they're not going to appear on CP.

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/497536#Comment_497536

Okay...the translation bit makes sense--although I wonder what took so long!

I still would like to get Gunkel's full Genesis commentary, so since this is the Suggestions thread, please consider this a full-blown SUGGESTION!

May we please get Hermann Gunkel's Genesis:Translated and Explained in PrePub? Thank you.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/497538#Comment_497538

And I'll take the opportunity to ask for Gunkel's The Influence of the Holy Spirit, translated by Fortress.

George Somsel

David Paul said:

Anyway...back to my  D - I - S - A - P - P - O - I - N - T - M - E - N - T about Gunkel's NON-commentary. So, what is to be done about this? I though I was getting Gunkel's commentary and it turns out I didn't. Do I REbid on this if it ever gets put on CP at some future point, thus purchasing it twice? Will his Psalms commentary ever be available? Hmmmm...

I think you might do better getting Mitchell Dahood's 3 vols on the Psalms.  As much as I appreciate Gunkel (I was trained in the direct line of Gunkel), I really like what Dahood did with the Psalms (of course, not 100%).  I would like to see Gunkel's REAL Genesis commentary.

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/497542#Comment_497542

Mark Barnes said:

And I'll take the opportunity to ask for Gunkel's The Influence of the Holy Spirit, translated by Fortress.

Mt. 6:8  "...your Father knows what you need before you ask Him."

Mark, I bet you already have this one on order... [:)]

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Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/497932#Comment_497932

David Paul said:

Mark, I bet you already have this one on order...

Pre-ordered on 1/5/2013 for $199.95 [:)]. Too many pre-pubs to remember!

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/497963#Comment_497963

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