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Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-10 00:00:00 Luis M Lubian Gonzalez REVIEW AND CRITIQUE Bultmann, Rudolf. The History of the Synoptic Tradition. Translated by John Marsh. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. The History of the Synoptic Tradition demonstrates how Bultmann quests the “actual course of historical events’ about Jesus’s spoken words and legends behind the testimony of the synoptic tradition as received by the early Church. Bultmann builds his work on the earlier works of Wrede, Weiss, Wellhausen, Schmidt, and applies Gunkel’s form-critical method more thoroughly in the study of the history of the Synoptic Tradition. Bultmann subtracts and identifies the editorial materials that he believes to the product of theological reshaping of the historical materials by comparing and contrasting the “conflict” and “contradiction’ that he finds in the apophthegms and dominical sayings attributed to Jesus. In the similar fashion Bultmann uses the subtle patterns of storytelling techniques as evidences of the editorial layer from the original historical sources, and in conclusion, he claims that the Synoptic Tradition was a theological product of the Palestinian Christianity. Critiques: Although the conclusions that Bultmann has made are by and large rejected by contemporary scholarship with the increase of knowledge, Bultmann's influences can be still felt everywhere in the contemporary historical study of the NT. The method of form-criticism remains informative and useful, but it is questionable whether the use of form-criticism should be combined with the hermeneutical suspicion in Bultmann's fashion. Bultmann's idea of "aporias" (conflict, contradiction, and inconsistency within biblical tradition) is too often controlled by his own bias of modern scientific worldview and existential agenda. Bultmann's insight of the theological shaping of presenting history in the NT is valid, however he is overstating the case that all the editorial materials must not be trustworthy in their historical values.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-31 00:00:00 Paicu Alexandru Oh God... how does one review a book like this? I think Bultmann is a good reader--an amazing reader even, but his presuppositions and commitments (both historically and philosophically) are so problematic that it razes his project to the ground. The notion that there could be individual forms circulating behind the Gospel tradition is helpful, practical, and might even be useful, but the type of source-critical work this inspires is just.... scary. We need a more realistic approach about "seams" in texts.