If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche
13. What have We Done and Where are We Moving? Personal Remarks about a Change of Paradigm
If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche
Niels Peter Lemche [+]
University of Copenhagen
Description
The first part of a resumé of “what happened” when the Copenhagen School took over. It was first published in 1994. The second half which follows here, takes up the thread, however after another twenty years. It is tripartite, with three interconnected essays on the past, the present and the future. The past gives an expression of how theories current in those days were undermined by new studies by students in Copenhagen establishing the fact “that we have all been brainwashed by the deuteronomists” –adopting uncritically their historical narrative, the second centers about the situation c.1990 when everything seemed to be in shambles, while the third part includes “prophecies” about how Old Testament studies would develop in the future.