Elijah Yahweh and Baal

Elijah Yahweh and Baal is a masterpiece presented with authority by a twentieth-century accomplished and unsurpassed exegete. It is now translated by a disciple whose elegant rendition sounds as if Hermann Gunkel had originally written himself the book in English. --Andre LaCocque The Chicago Theological Seminary Chicago IL Written a century ago for a church audience eager to learn how the best scholarship of the day could illuminate one of the Bibles most absorbing stories this little book shows Gunkel at the height of his powers of critical perspicuity explanatory finesse and reverent sensitivity the ideal Bible study leader at once learned captivating and devout. . . . Moreover Gunkel encompasses his subject as few today could or would in such short scope combining philological acumen aesthetic appreciation comparative perspective and attention to communal folk tradition--his pioneer distinction--and constants of human religiosity. The translation includes astute notes by the editor and a helpful list of more recent resources. --Robert B. Coote San Francisco Theological Seminary San Francisco CA Hermann Gunkel who died in 1932 is one of the greatest teachers and God-Fathers of Old Testament study. He has taught us the most about the artistic imaginative dimensions of the text. His interpretation of the Elijah narrative in this volume is a treasure that merits continuing attention. We may be grateful indeed to K. C. Hanson for bringing it to us in English and to Wipf and Stock for its publication. Gunkel continues to be our teacher and God-Father in wise shrewd reading of the text. --Walter Brueggemann Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur GA Hermann Gunkel (1862-1932) was Professor of Old Testament at the universities in Berlin Giessen and Halle Germany. Among his major works in English are Genesis Introduction to the Psalms and Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton.