This anthology forms a workshop of the EABS research unit "Developing Exegetical Methods", which took place during the Leuven 2016 congress. In it, the working group dealt with the methodological connection between genre and tradition history using various text examples. The volume represents the entire range of genre-historical research, starting with Hermann Gunkel up to more recent insights into the importance of form for the mediation process, based on studies in literature and communication science. The focus of the contributions is always on the reflection of the methodical approach; the texts serve to explain methodological considerations. The texts treated as examples come from the book Ezekiel, the Psalter and the Song of Songs. The volume continues the volume Methodik im Diskurs. Published by Raik Heckl in 2015. New Perspectives for Old Testament Exegesis (BThSt 156).

Der Sammelband enthAlt knapp dreiAig substantielle Artikel namhafter zumeist alttestamentlicher Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler beider Konfessionen und unterschiedlicher Generationen zu den fA"r die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft grundlegenden Themen Theologie, Philologie, Recht und Geschichte des antiken Israel. Die LektA"re der einzelnen BeitrAge zeigt, dass diese Bereiche in vielfAltiger Weise miteinander in Beziehung stehen und einander beeinflussen. Damit wird das Werk von Udo RA"terswArden zugleich aufgenommen, gewA"rdigt und weitergedacht.