Sigmund Mowinckel

Sigmund Mowinckel (* August 4, 1884, † June 4, 1965 ), full name Sigmund Olaf Plytt Mowinckel was a Norwegian professor of Old Testament. He is best known for his psalm research.

  • 2.1 Psalmenstudien

Life

Childhood

Sigmund Mowinckel was the son of the diocesan chaplain Jorgen Blydt Mowinckel and his wife Petra Johanne in nordnordwegischen Kjerringoy in the province of Nordland to the world, but grew up in Beiarn. He had two brothers, Herbert and Rolf.

Study

Mowinckel studied theology from 1902 to 1908 at the University of Oslo. Instead of making the practical- theological examination by the state exam, he studied - encouraged by his teacher Jens Gleditsch and Johannes Ording - another year of theology in order to submit a first theological treatise. The discipline to which he committed here, namely the Old Testament, remained his main area for his entire life. He was influenced particularly by the German Old Testament scholar Hermann Gunkel.

From 1911 to 1913 he studied - made ​​possible by a grant - Old Testament in Germany with Hermann Gunkel and Assyriology at Peter Jensen at the University of Marburg.

Outcome

Mowinckel his doctorate in 1915 at the University of Oslo, where he also was a lecturer from 1917 also. In 1922 he was appointed extraordinary, appointed in 1933 to full professor. In 1954 he retired.

Work

Psalmenstudien

In terms of the Psalms Mowinckel was the head of a movement that often stood in contrast to the form-critical school Hermann Gunkel.

Mowinckel interpreted out the origin of the Psalms from the cult, in particular, he formulated the hypothesis that the psalm chants not individual poetry, but cultic songs are for the most part. Their function was in pre-exilic period to accompany celebrations and processions in the temple of Jerusalem liturgy. With this interpretation, he turned against his revered teacher and mentor Gunkel and remains to this day an outsider of the theological research.

Works

  • Considerations on the Pentateuch - source question (1964 )
  • The chronology of the Israelite and Jewish kings (1932 )
  • Tetrateuch, Pentateuch, Hexateuch (1964 )
  • Religion and Culture (1953 )
  • Psalmenstudien (1921 - 1924)
  • Studies on the book of Ezra - Nehemiah / 1 nachchronische Red d book ( 1964)
  • Studies on the book of Ezra - Nehemiah / 2, Nehemiah - memoir (1964 )
  • Studies on the book of Ezra - Nehemiah / 3 Ezrageschichte and the Law of Moses (1965 )
  • The sixty-eighth Psalm (1953 )
  • For Israelite New Year and for the interpretation of the enthronement psalms (1952 )
  • For the composition of the book of Jeremiah (1914 )
  • On the question of documentary sources in Joshua 13-19 (1946)
  • The star names in the Old Testament (1928 )
  • The knowledge of God in the Old Testament prophets (1941 )
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