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New Testament Studies: Form Criticism
Resources available at Yale Divinity Library for New Testament studies.
New Testament Studies by C.H. DoddThis book contains (pg 1-11) a short article Dodd penned for the Expository Times in 1932, titled "The Framework of the Gospel Narrative." This article made the critical contribution that the arrangement of source units within the gospels was not necessarily arbitrary.
History and interpretation in the Gospels by Henry Lightfoot.In lectures from ca 1934 Lightfoot (in)famously declared himself the method's "champion." Importantly, his variation on the approach emphasized what the gospel editors prioritized in arranging their sources, a consideration that spurred several additional methodologies.
From Tradition to Gospel by Martin Dibelius;"Form criticism" in NT studies began with Dibelius and his Formgeschichte des Evangeliums (1919). This book set out to study what traditional material came before the gospels.
History of the Synoptic Tradition by Rudolf BultmannGeschichte der synoptischen Tradition (1921) made Bultmann a household name in NT studies. His book investigated the traditional units that preceded the Synoptics.
The Gospel message of St. Mark. by R.H. LightfootThough conducted as form criticism, this book foreshadowed Anglophone scholarship's major innovation on form criticism. Lightfoot here argued that Mark prioritized doctrine, not history, when arranging his materials. And so redaction criticism was born!
Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism by Offene Fragen zur Formgeschichte des Evangeliums witnesses to the end of form criticism in the 1960-70s as structural linguistic exegesis took hold.
From Tradition to Gospel by "Form criticism" in NT studies began with Dibelius and his Formgeschichte des Evangeliums (1919). This book set out to study what traditional material came before the gospels.
History of the Synoptic Tradition by Geschichte der synoptischen Tradition (1921) made Bultmann a household name in NT studies. His book investigated the traditional units that preceded the Synoptics.
