Sigmund Mowinckel
Sigmund Olaf Plytt Mowinckel was a Norwegian professor, theologian and biblical scholar. He was noted for his research into the practice of religious worship in ancient Israel.
Life
Sigmund Mowinckel was educated at the University of Oslo and from 1917 onward he was a lecturer there. He retired in 1954.From the 1920s, Mowinckel headed a school of thought concerning the Book of Psalms which sometimes clashed with the Form criticism conclusions of Hermann Gunkel and those who followed in Gunkel's footsteps. In broad terms, Gunkel strongly advocated a view of the Psalms which focused on the two notable names for God occurring therein: Yahweh and Elohim. The schools of Psalm writing springing therefrom were termed Yahwist and Elohist. Mowinckel's approach to the Psalms differed quite a bit from Gunkel's. Mowinckel explained the Psalms as wholly cultic, both in origin and in intention. He attempted to relate more than 40 psalms to a hypothetical New Year autumn festival.
In addition to his work on Psalms, his major monograph on the Old Testament roots of Messianism is of significance in scholarship until this day.
Published works (early editions)
- Statholderen Nehemia
- Esra den skriftlærde
- Kongesalmerne i det Gamle Testamentet
- Der Knächt Jahves
- Psalmenstudien I: 'Awan und die individuellen Klagepsalmen
- Psalmenstudien II: Das Thronbesteigungsfest Jahwäs und der Ursprung der Eschatologie
- Psalmenstudien III: Kultprophetie und kultprophetische Psalmen
- Psalmenstudien IV: Die technischen Termini in den Psalmenuberschriften
- Psalmenstudien V: Segen und Fluch in Israels Kult und Psalmdichtung
- Psalmenstudien VI: Die Psalmdichter
- Diktet om Ijob og hans tre venner
- Profeten Jesaja
- Jesaja: Profetien fra Jesaja til Jeremia
- Motiver og stilformer i profeten Jeremias diktning
- Le Decalogue
- Det Gamle Testament som Guds Ord
- Gamla testamental som Guds ord
- Die Erkentis Gottes bei den alttestamentlichen Propheten Supplementary volume to Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift.
- Prophecy and Tradition
- Han som kommer : Messiasforventningen i Det gamle testament og på Jesu tid .
- Der achtundsechsigste Psalm
- Religion och Kultus.
- Real and Apparent Tricola in Hebrew Psalm Poetry
- The Spirit and the Word: Prophecy and Tradition in Ancient Israel. Edited by K. C. Hanson. Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies
NOTE ANVAO signifies the Norwegian publisher/publications Avhandliger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. II. Hist. Filos. Klasse.
Articles by Mowinckel
- 'Om den jodiske menighets og provinsen Judeas organisasjon ca. 400 f. Kr.', Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, pp. 123ff., 226ff.
- 'Tronstigningssalmerne og Jahves tronstigningsfest', Norsk teologi til reformationsjubileet, specialhefte to Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, pp. 13ff.
- 'Die vorderasiatischen Konigs- und Fursteninschriften' , Eucharisterion I, pp. 278ff., a book produced by Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur d. Alten und Neuen Testaments Band 36
- 'Det kultiske synspunkt som forskningsprinsipp i den gammelstestamentlige videnskap', Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift , pp. 1ff.
- 'I porten' Studier tilegnede Frans Buhl
- 'Drama, religionsgeschichtlisches'
- 'Levi und Leviten' , RGG2
- 'Stilformer og motiver i profeten Jeremias dikning', Edda Vol. 36, pp. 276ff.
- 'Salmeboken og gudstjenestesalmen', Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, pp. 153ff.
- 'Die letzten Worte Davids' , in II Samuel 23:1-7, Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft' Band 45?, pp. 30ff.
- 'A quelle moment le culte de Jahwe a Jerusalem est il officiellement devenu un culte sans images?' Revue de l'Histoire et des Philosophies Religieuses Vol. 9, pp. 197ff.
- The following sections/chapters in Det Gamle Testament, oversatt av S. Michelet, Sigmund Mowinckel og Nils Messel Volumes I - III :-: Sections 2. Mos. 18-34; 4. Mos. 20-25; 32-33; 5. Mosebok; Josvaboken; Samuelsboken; Kongeboken; Jesaja; Jeremia; Tolvprofetboken.
- Book review of Eduard Konig's Das Buch Hiob in Deutsche Litz, 3. Folge, 1. Jahrg. 12, columns 529ff.
- 'Die Komposition des Deuterojesajanischen Buches' , Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft' Band 44 pp. 87ff., 242ff.
- 'Die Chronologie der israelitischen und judaischen Konige' , Acta Orientalia Vol. 10 pp. 161ff.
- 'Fiendene i de individuelle klagesalmer', Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, pp. 1ff.
- 'The "Spirit" and the "Word" in the Pre-exilic Reforming Prophets', Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 53 pp. 199–227.
- '"Anden" og "Ordet" hos de foreksilske reformprofeter', Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, pp. 1ff.
- 'Ekstatisk oplevelse og rasjonal bearbeidelse hos de gammeltestamentlige profeter', Theologisk Tidsskrift , pp. 1ff.
- 'Extatic Experience and Rational Elaboration in Old Testament Prophecy', Acta Orientalia Vol. 13, pp. 264–291.
- 'Hat es ein israelitisches Nationalepos gegeben?' , Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft' Band 53 pp. 130ff.
- 'Zur Geschichte der Dekalogue' , Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft' Band 55 pp. 218ff.
- Book Review of Widengren's Accadian and Hebrew Psalms of Lamentation which appeared in Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, pp. 155. .
- 'Ras Shamra og det Gamle Testament', Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift Vol. xl,, pp. 16ff.
- 'Oppkomsten av profetlitteraturen', Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, pp. 65ff.
- 'Kadesj, Sinai og Jahve', Norwegian Journal of Geography Vol. 9, pp. 21ff.
- 'Nathanprofetien i 2. Sam. 7' , Svensk exegetisk årsbok , pp. 220ff.
- 'Zum Problem der hebraischen Metrik' , Bertholetfestschrift, pp. 379ff. .
- 'Den senjodiske salmediktning', Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, pp. 1–54.
- 'Zur hebraischen Metrik II' , Studia theologica cura ordinum theologorum Scandinavorum edita Vol. VII, pp. 54ff.
- 'Metrischer Aufbau und Textcritik, an Ps. 8 illustriert' , Studia Orientalia Johanno Pedersen Septuagenario...dicata , pp. 250ff.
- 'Der metrische Aufbau von Jes. 62, 1 - 12 und die neuen sog. kurzverse' , Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft' Band 65, pp. 167ff.
- 'Zum Psalm des Habakuk' , Theologische Zeitschrift Band 9, pp. 1ff.
- 'Psalm Criticism between 1900 and 1935 ', Vetus Testamentum Vol. 5 pp. 13ff.
- 'Marginalien zur hebraischen Metrik', Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft' Band 67 pp. 97ff.
- 'Zu Psalm 16, 3 - 4' , Theologische Literaturzeitung, columns 649ff.
- 'Notes on the Psalms', Studia theologica cura ordinum theologorum Scandinavorum edita Vol. XIII, pp. 134ff.
- 'Drive and/or Ride in the O.T.', Vetus Testamentum Vol. 12 pp. 278–299ff.
Related Reading
- Hayes, John Haralson Old Testament Form Criticism
- Koch, Klaus. The Growth of the Biblical Tradition: The Form-Critical Method