The Case for Käsemann: His Mysterious Presence in Logos.com

DMB
DMB Member Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 2024 in English Forum

See https://www.logos.com/products/search?q=kasemann 

Or google 'site:community.logos.com kasemann' 

Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Käsemann 

Here's a picture from a top-secret photo album on Google:

Notice the dark mysterious glasses. He seems to float in and around everyone in Logos.com. People battle him. Quote him. Even suggest his importance as a major 20th century NT scholar.  Even worse, a certain renegade out-of-control scholar from Moody uses his methods. Yes, it's true!

But who is he?  Really?

I read a review of his Romans commentary in Logos (yes ... Logos even has book reports about him).  So I set out to purchase it, since it hints at what some (me) now call 'Geological Theology'.

Well, not my problem. I was surprised Amazon has him for only $14 LESS than in 1980! Used. Inflation in the book world is horrendous!  http://www.amazon.com/Commentary-Romans-Ernst-Käsemann/dp/0802808603 

EDIT:  After I paid my re-destined Logos-bucks to Amazon, I feel empowered to quote one of the reviewers (I liked the german NASCAR image).

'With Ernst Käsemann's Romans, you get more than a gentle, reassuring explication or updating of a foundational, two thousand year old letter. With Käsemann you ride shotgun to a guy who knows the track and takes the curves at speed.'

"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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  • George Somsel
    George Somsel Member Posts: 10,150 ✭✭✭

    Something of a ghost in Logos.  It's strange that he isn't offered since it is an Eerdman's publication.  Of course, we know that Logos NEVER offers Eerdman's books.  [;)]

    george
    gfsomsel

    יְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן

  • Lee
    Lee Member Posts: 2,714 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/602140#Comment_602140

    That's Eerdmans. [;)]

    I know, I get it wrong often. Just like Ehrmann / Ehrman.

    Mann, Man, Mans, sind mir egal.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just accidentally bumping this, knowing the Kasemann case is hopeless.

    My used book arrived.  Opening it up, I checked to see how to best approach its reading:

    - First random sample page looked like some notes (tiny fonts, heavy greek, multiple crosses references).  It turned out, no, that was his commentary. Lesson: Logos commentaries are the best way to go. Hands-down.

    - And first page had a prior owner of Julie Gorman.  That name rang a bell. The book came from Pasedena Cal.  Could it be?  She was at Fullerton (Professor). One can only surmise.  Maybe retirement slimming down ones library? Ironically Kasemann was about the same age, and the purchase was about the same time as the english translation.  Lesson: Logos can't deliver the interesting thoughts about prior owners and what they thought.  Community notes doesn't quite cut it.

    Well, ok. Logos won't do Kasemann, so it's time to get out the pink highlighter (yellow doesn't work at night).

    If there's any Dr Gorman fans in the Logos forumite world: http://www.talbot.edu/ce20/educators/protestant/julie_gorman/ 

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Nick Steffen
    Nick Steffen Member Posts: 673 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/603971#Comment_603971

    I do hope you're wrong, Denise. I would love to see Kasemann included here. 

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