The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship by Andrew Mein;Nathan MacDonald;Matthew A. Collins;

Author:Andrew Mein;Nathan MacDonald;Matthew A. Collins;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

It is remarkable that Kittel has relegated the religious significance of the psalms to a secondary place.

The prophets proved rather more difficult to accommodate to this nationalist framework, since the prophets had been celebrated by critical scholarship as pioneers towards a more ethical conception of religion and a belief in a universal God. For Eißfeldt, as we have seen, the rise of the prophets is one of the two pivotal moments in the history of ancient Israel’s understanding of war. For Eißfeldt, this marks an important step on the way from simply national wars fought purely for self-interest to the concept of just war. The omission of the Great War’s essays from Schmitt’s roster of scholarship obscures a rather interesting divergence from von Rad’s assessment of prophecy. For von Rad, the fundamental shift occurred not with Amos and Hosea but much earlier with the beginnings of the monarchy. This fundamentally changed the covenantal pact between the Israelites and moved Israel towards professional military units and offensive wars. The prophets remain true to the older idea of sacral war and promoted it and its covenantal implications. This was, of course, part of a wider assessment of the prophets in the middle part of the twentieth century that saw them less as religious geniuses and insisted on their allegiance to the tradition.

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