دانلود کتاب Studien zur literarkritischen Methode: Gericht und Heil in Jesaja 7,1—17 und 29,1—8

This is a shortened version of Werlitz's 1991 dissertation done under the direction of Rudolf Kilian. It is characterized by methodical and detailed treatment of the issues and texts; Werlitz fully reviews relevant secondary literature and employs extensive footnotes. He understands the literary-critical method in a traditional sense; this is not a work of literary criticism in the American mode of Robert Alter or David Gunn.

Werlitz proposes a new orientation to literary-critical work by outlining and then exemplifying an exegetical approach that keeps its steps, that is, the different criticisms, distinct in their order of application and in the evidence and arguments that they offer. Literary criticism is first concerned with the extent of the exegetical unit under study and second with questions of its unity; form criticism, redaction criticism, history proper, etc., can then work with the results of this analysis. The work of Richter is influential in this shift in orientation, but Werlitz argues that Richter was not consistent in his
development of a "text-internal" method.

The book has a strong methodological bent to it; Werlitz consistently outlines the method or methods that he is analyzing or employing, their specific steps and terminology, their presuppositions and the degree of certitude that their results can command. He acknowledges the frequent presence of the hermeneutical circle. He begins with a review of "classical" literary criticism, partly exemplified by Wellhausen and Duhm, which is a mix of source analysis and the attendant reconstruction of Israel's history; the dominant concern of source analysis was for the origins of books and the proper placement of the stages of a book's composition in the history of Israel. This was not a "pure" form of textual analysis since methods and goals of argument were frequently combined and confused. For example, the internal unity (Einheit) and the authenticity (Echtheit), or date(s), of a text are quite different issues that rely on different evidence but that were, and still are, often equated.