Congress Volume Copenhagen 1953

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CONGRESS VOLUME
COPENHAGEN 1953
SUPPLEMENTS
TO
VETUS TESTAMENTUM
EDlTED BY
THE BOARD OF THE QUARTERLY
G. W. ANDERSON MILLAR BURROWS
AAGE BENTZENt HENRI CAZELLES
P. A. H. DE BOER MARTIN NOTH
VOLUME I
LEIDEN
J.
E. BRILL
1953
CONGRESS VOLUME
COPENHAGEN
1953
LEIDEN
J.
E. BRILL
1953
Copyright 1953 by E. J. Brilt, Leiden, Holland
All rights reserved, including the right ta translate or ta reproduce
this baak or parts thereaf in any farm
PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS
CONTENTS
In memoriam Professor AAGE BENTZEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. VII
Bibliography of AAGE BENTZEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX
Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. XV
AUERBACH, ELIAS, Die grosse Überarbeitung der biblischen
Bücher .............................................. 1
BIC, MILOS, Zur Problematik des Buches Obadjah.......... 11
DRIVER, G. R., Hebrew poetic ruction ..... . . . .. .. ... . . ... 26
DUPoNT-SoMMER, A., Sur les débuts de l'histoire araméenne.. 40
GEMSER, B., The importance of the motive clause in Oid Testa-
ment law ............................................. 50
JOHNSON, A. R., The primary meaning of V"Nl ........... 67
LINDBLOM, JOH., The political background of the Shiloh oracle 78
MOWINCKEL, SIGMUND, The Hebrew equivalent of Taxa in Ass.
Mos. ix .............................................. 88
MUILENBURG, JAMES, A study in Hebrew rhetoric: repetition and
style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
PAR ROT, ANDRÉ, Autels et installatiöns cultu~lles à Mari. . . .. 112
VON RAD, GERHARD, Josephsgeschichte und ältere Chokma 120
ROBINSON, T. H., Hebrew poetic form: the English trarution 128
SEELIGMANN, 1. L., Voraussetzungen der Midraschexegese.. 150
DE V AUX, R., A propos du second centenaire d' Astruc-
réflexions sur l'état actuel de la critique du Pentateuque... 182
c.,
VRIEZEN, TH. Prophecy and Eschatology ............... 199

AAGE BENTZEN
IN MEMORIAM PROFESSOR AAG E BENTZEN
When Professor AAGE BENTZEN was elected President of the newly
founded "InternationalOrganization of Old Testament Scholars"
three years ago in Leyden, he said that he regarded hls election as
an acknowledgement of Danish research of the Old Testament, and
he promised to do everythlng in his power to prove worthy of the
honour. Everybody who knew him weIl, knows how much time
and energy he expended on the arrangement of the Congress in
Copenhagen at the end of August, and when hls sudden death oc
curred on 4th June 1953 in the midst of these preparations it was
felt by those who had to make the decision that they owed it to
Professor BENTZEN'S memory to carry out the Congress as planned.
At the time of hls death Professor BENTZEN was only 58 years
old, but he had been teaching at the University for a great many years.
Aft er taking part, in 1923, in a prec e ding competition, he was
appointed lecturer in Old Testament exegesis at the University of
Copenhagen, and in 1929 he became professor ordinarius. The re
sult of the competition, for whlch the participants had only 2 months
for preparation, was BENTZEN'S first published work: Den israelitiske
Sabbats Oprindelse og Historie indtil JerusaletllS Erobring 70 e.K. [The
Origin and History of the Israelite Sabbath until the Conquest of
Jerusalem, 70 A.D. (157 pages)].
c.
During hls studies in Copenhagen BENTZEN had Fr. BUHL, J.
J ACOBSEN and JOHANNES PEDERSEN as teachers, and each of them
exercised an influence whlch lasted all BENTZEN'S life. BUHL and
JACOBSEN, in their youth, had introduced the WELLHAUSEN theories
into Denmark, and to the end BENTZEN continued to support their
conception of the sources of the Pentateuch. Through JOH. PEDERSEN
BENTZEN acquired an understanding of the religious-hlstorical school,
the works of whlch were just beginning to be acknowledged at thls
period. In thls way BENTZEN also became a close follower of S.
MOWINCKEL who published the lst volume of hls Psalmenstudien in
1921 (a year aft er the publishlng of JOHANNES PEDERSEN's IsraelI-II).
Before BENTZEN obtained an appointment in Copenhagen he had
spent several months studying in Germany and England. In Germany
he studied in 1921-22 under GUSTAV HÖLSCHER and under PAUL
KAHLE in Giessen and here he came under an influence whlch