This 350-page volume and 1996-enlarged edition is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/
Below, a letter from Mr. (Dr. Prof.) Kummel to Mr. (Dr. Prof.) F. F. Bruce. It was discovered surreptitiously in a one of Mr. Bruce's books from his library. We could find no biographical information in Mr. Kummel other than “1905-1995” at Wiki. There is a Festschrift out there somewhere. We did find a letter posted as per below. The two knew each other.
“Werner Kummer letter to F.F. Bruce.” NT Resources. March 10, 2008. Accessed August 20, 2013. http://ntresources.com/blog/
Werner Kummel letter to F. F. Bruce
March 10, 2008
Our library recently purchased, at my request, a used copy of Jesus und Paulus, the Kümmel Festscrift.
Grässer, Erich, ed. Jesus und Paulus: Festschrift f. Werner Georg Kümmel z. 70. Geburstag. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1975.
To our surprise, the copy we received had been the personal copy of F. F. Bruce—his signature is inside the front cover. Also in the book was an envelope addressed to Bruce containing two letters, one from the editor of the Festschrift, the other from Kümmel (both in German). It likely came through used book channels that did not have much concern for biblical studies—the stamp has been cut out of the envelope, but the letters left in the book! For what historical curiosity this may be, I’ve posted an image of the letter and given the text below along with my paraphrase/translation.” (I welcome anyone with more proficient German skills to offer of more polished rendition!)
The text of the letter:
Prof. Dr. W. G. Kümel
355 Marburg/Lahn, 12.Juni 1975
von-Harnack-Straße 23
Sehr verehrter Herr Kollege,
Sie werden es mir sicher nicht übelnehmen, dass ich erst heute dazu komme, Ihnen für Ihre freundliche Mitarbeit an der mir zu meinem 70. Geburtstag überreichten Festschrift sehr herzlich zu danken. Aber Sie werden verstehen, dass man nur Schritt für Schritt die vielen Briefe und gar die vielen Aufsätze lesen und beantworten kann, die einen an einem solchen Jubilaum erreichen. Ich habe mich sehr darüber gefreut, dass auch Sie sich an der Festschrift beteiligt haben, und die Gedanken, die Sie als die eigentliche Meinung des Paulus in dem von Ihnen behandelten Abschnitt des Galaterbriefs herausstellen, halte ich durchwegs für richtig. Dass Paulus letztlich nicht autobiographisch, sondern kerygmatisch-apologetisch schreibt, haben Sie richtig und überzeugend nachgewiesen.
Ich hoffe, Sie haben inzwischen den mir pünktlich überreichten Band auch erhalten und gesehen, dass er viele interessante und wertvolle Arbeiten enthält und auch ein erfreuliches Zeichen der die Grenzen überschreitenden Zusammenarbeit der Neutestamentler ist.
Ich hoffe, Sie im August als Präsident unserer Societas begrüssen zu können, und grüsse Sie bestens
Ihr ergebener
[Werner Kümmel—sig]
My paraphrase/translation:
My very dear colleague,
You’ll surely understand that I’m only now getting around to thank you very cordially for your friendly collaboration in my 70th birthday Festschrift. But you will understand that one can only read and answer the many letters and essays which one receives at such an anniversary one at a time.
I was very pleased about the fact that you also took part in my Festschrift, and the thoughts which you presented as Paul’s actual opinion in the section of Galatians that you treated, I hold throughout to be correct. The fact that Paul writes in the long run not autobiographically, but kerygmatically and apologetically, you have proven both correctly and convincingly.
I hope, in the meantime that you have also received the volume presented to me and seen that it contains many interesting and valuable essays and also a pleasing indication of the extent of broad co-operation by NT scholars. I hope to be able to welcome you in August as a president of our Society and greet you warmly,
Yours truly,
[w.k.]
The book is outlined as follows.
Introduction
1. The problematic of a theology of the New Testament
2. Literature
Chapter 1: The Proclamation of Jesus According to the First Three Gospels
1. The problem of the historical Jesus
A. The Question of the Sources
B. The Theological Problematic
2. The Kingdom of God
A. John the Baptist—imminent judgment, conversion and baptism, coming of the “Mightier One,” the baptism of Jesus
B. Jesus—imminence of the kingdom of God, the presence of the kingdom of God
3. The proclamation about God
A. The Judge
B. The Father who will act in the future
C. The demand for conversion
D. The Father who acts in the present
4. God’s demand
A. The Kingdom of God and the fulfillment of the Divine Will
B. An interim ethic?
C. Jesus’ demand the Jewish situation
D. God’s unconditional will
E. The encounter with the love of God
F. The Kingdom of God and the idea of reward and punishment
5. Jesus’ personal claim
A. Jesus’ deeds
B. Belief in Jesus?
C. Jesus the Prophet?
D. The Messiah
E. The Son of David
F. The Son of God
G. The Son of Man
6. Jesus’ suffering and death
A. The prediction of Jesus’ suffering
B. The suffering of the Son of Man
C. Gethsemane and the Last Supper
Chapter Two: The Faith of the Primitive Community
1. The Easter Faith
A. Paul’s account
B. The Account of Mark’s Gospel
C. The Earliest Tradition
D. The essence of the resurrection faith
2. The belief in Christ of the Palestinian primitive community
A. The Son of Man
B. The Messiah
C. The Servant of God
D. The Son of God
E. The Lord
F. The Man Jesus
G. The Crucifixion
3. The belief in Christ in the Hellenistic community
A. The mission of the Son of God
B. The bearer of Divine Power
C. The Spirit as Possession and the birth of Jesus without a human father
4. The church’s self-awareness
A. The self-understanding of the primitive community
B. The separation from the Jewish community
C. The twelve and the apostles
Chapter Three: The Theology of Paul
1. The historical position of Paul
A. Effect and source of Pauline thought
B. The sources
2. The present as the time of salvation
A. The expectation of the imminent consummation of salvation
B. The presence of salvation
C. Adam and Christ
D. History of Israel and the Christ Event
E. Paul’s call experience
3. The Christ event
A. The sending of the Son of God
B. Jesus and Christ
C. The “Final Man”
D. The Lord (Kurios)
E. The Son of God
F. The formula “through Christ”
G. The “likeness of God”
H. The humanness of Jesus
I. Christ and the Spirit
J. The pre-existence of Christ
4. The lost condition of man in the world
A. Man as flesh
B. The universality of sin
C. Law and guilt
5. Salvation in Jesus Christ
A. Deliverance and redemption
B. Liberation from the spiritual powers
C. Liberation from the law
D. Liberation from sin and guilt
E. Justification—what does justification mean? Christ and justification. Faith and justification
F. Reconciliation
6. God’s gift of salvation and the task of the Christian
A. The present reality of the Christian life—baptism and the body of Christ, dying with Christ, the Holy Spirit and “being in Christ,” the Lord’s Supper and transformation into glory
B. Indicative and imperative
C. Judgment according to works
D. Divine predestination
E. The final consummation—the destruction of the powers of the world and “being with Christ,” expectation of the end-time and consummation of salvation after death, and salvation for all?
7. Paul and Jesus
A. The historical connection
B. The substantive relationship—the different historical and salvation-historical situation, the understanding of salvation in detail (God, law, preaching, Christology, baptism, Lord’s Supper, church, world and men)
C. The Lord and His messenger
Chapter IV: The Johannine Message of Christ in the Fourth Gospel and in the Epistles
1. The historical position of Johannine theology
A. The literary problem
B. Circumstances of composition
2. The essential character of the Johannine message of Christ
A. The Gospel of John as the perfect witness to Christ
B. The language of the Johannine witness to Christ
3. The Johannine image of Christ
A. The Anointed One
B. The Son
C. The Savior of the world
D. The Son of Man
E. The Word (the Logos)
F. The Bearer of Salvation
4. Salvation and the way of salvation
A. The lost condition
B. Liberation from the world and from death
C. Liberation from sin
D. Faith and love
E. Birth from God and the sacraments—being in God and in Christ, birth from God, baptism and the Lord’s Supper
F. The Holy Spirit and the community—the Spirit of God, the Paraclete, the community
Conclusion: Jesus—Paul—John: The Heart of the New Testament
A. The “Heart of the New Testament”
B. The Future and the Presence of Salvation—the primitive community and Paul, the Johannine writings
C. The Divine Condescension
D. The Message of the Major Witnesses
Index:
A. Index of New Testament passages
B. Index of Topics
No comments:
Post a Comment