Historical Criticism

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Just thought I’d pass this on:

winnie-the-pooh.ru/online/lib/stud.html
New Directions in Pooh Studies:
Überlieferungs- und religionsgeschichtliche Studien
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There is little need, at the present stage of scholarship, to attempt a justification of the principle that the dogma of unitary authorship for works of literature must be totally abandoned. In all confidence we may say that a priori we may expect the Pooh corpus (viz. Winnie-the-Pooh, hereafter abbreviated W, containing traditions of higher antiquity than the Deutero-Pooh book, The House at Pooh Corner, hereafter abbreviated H) to be of composite origin; even if there were such a person as A.A. Milne, traditionally the ‘author’, we may be sure that he did not write the Pooh books. His name does not occur once within the narratives themselves, and we can hardly be expected to take a title-page, manifestly a later addition, seriously./1/
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And it takes off from there. 😃
 
I love it!

Someone once wrote an article claiming there were two stories in the Parable of the Prodigal Son, seeing two different original versions. In one the Son asks for his inheritance, but in the other the father divides his possessions on his own initiative. One version has the son being a spendthrift; the other shows him being victim of famine in a distant country.

And so it went.

When this article was published, it was hailed as a new watermark in NT scholarship.

The author published a retraction, saying the original article was a satirical put-on.
 
Darn. I wanted to read the whole thing but my browser recirected me because of a security alert re the website. So I’ll just continue puzzling.
 
I’m just glad academia is finally awarding this literature the serious scrutiny it deserves.

Oh bother.

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:rotfl: What a goofball.

Thanks for posting the second link, MarcoPolo.
 
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