2024-08-19

Hermann Detering’s works translated to English

Hermann Detering

Others have translated several of Hermann Detering’s works into English and these are available on Radikalkritik.

I have translated a number of additional works of his but copyright prohibits me from making some of them public. Some works that are otherwise only available in German on HD’s Radikalkritik website can be made public — as far as I am aware. I have attempted to make contact with guardians of Radikalkritik without success. I am more than willing to work with them should contact be made in the future.

Translation of the independently published Inszenierte Fälschungen: Die Paulusbriefe in der holländischen Radikalkritik. This is based on HD’s doctoral thesis:

Staged Forgeries: The Pauline Epistles in Dutch Radical Criticism

Contents

  • Preface
  • Preface of the dissertation
  • Introduction
    • Inducement and purpose
    • Older works in the history of research
    • Structure and outline
  • 1 The Dutch Radical School
    • 1.1 On the concept of the Dutch radical school
    • 1.2 Prehistory
      • 1.2.1 Preliminary remark
      • 1.2.2 Edward Evanson (1731-1805)
      • 1.2.3 Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860)
      • 1.2.4 Bruno Bauer (1809-1882)
    • 1.3 The Representatives of Dutch Radical Criticism
      • 1.3.1 Allard Pierson (1831-1896) – Samuel Adrianus Naber (1828-1913)
      • 1.3.2 Abraham Dirk Loman (1823-1897)
      • 1.3.3 Willem Christiaan van Manen (1842-1905)
      • 1.3.4 H.U. Meyboom (1842-1933)
      • 1.3.5 G.J.P.J. Bolland (1854-1922)
      • 1.3.6 Van den Bergh van Eysinga (1874-1957)
  • 2 The history of Christianity in the first two centuries
    • 2.1 General
    • 2.2 The Loman Hypothesis (“Hypothese-Loman”)
    • 2.3 Van Manen
    • 2.4 Bolland
    • 2.5 Van den Bergh van Eysinga
    • 2.6 Criticism
    • 2.7 Result
  • 3 The Criticism of the Pauline Epistles
    • 3.1 The inauthenticity of the so-called main letters
      • 3.1.1 Argumenta externa
        • A. Non-Canonical Christian Witnesses
        • B. Non-Christian Witnesses
        • C. The New Testament
        • D. Argumenta externa from the Canon History
        • E. History of the Apostolate
      • 3.1.2 Argumenta interna
    • 3.2  The inauthenticity of the remaining Pauline letters
      • 3.2.1 The Letter to the Philippians
      • 3.2.2 The Letter to Philemon
      • 3.2.3 The Epistles to the Thessalonians
      • 3.2.4 The letter to the Colossians
      • 3.2.5 The Epistle to the Ephesians
      • 3.2.6 Pastoral Epistles and Letter to the Hebrews
    • 3.3 Criticism of Paul’s letters in the Probabilities
      • 3.3.1 Structure and intention of the Probabilities
      • 3.3.2 Paul’s letters as “patchwork”; on the “lacera conditio Novi Testament i”
      • 3.3.4 Paulus episcopus as collector and editor
      • 3.3.5 The development of Christianity in the first two centuries
      • 3.3.6 Reception of the Probabilities
      • 3.3.7 Critical Appraisal
  • 4 Methodological Presuppositions
  • 5 Theological Consequences
  • 6  Reception
    • 6.1 Holland
    • 6.2 Germany
    • 6.3 Switzerland
    • 6.4 England/U S A/Canada
    • 6.5 France
  • 7 The Dutch Radical Criticism and the Current State of Pauline Research
    • 7.1 Preliminary note
    • 7.2 History of the early reception of Paul (argumenta externa)
    • 7.3 On the Literary Criticism of the Pauline Epistles
    • 7.4 Ecumenical address and un-Jewish character of the letters
    • 7.5 Gal 1-2
    • 7.6 Result
  • Literature
  • Abbreviations
  • Translation of Dutch quotations

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Another translation of a major work of Detering’s. It was not finished, but there is nonetheless much to follow up in what HD did make available:

The Opponents of Paul – a 2nd Century Judaizers Thesis

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction                                                                 
  • Paul versus Elchasai – the letter to the Galatians         
  • Elchasai in the Letter to the Colossians                       
  • To the Philippians – Against the Elchasaite “Dogs”       
  • Paul versus Cerinthus – 1st and 2nd Corinthians          

(Published on Radikalkritik as Die Gegner des Paulus – Judaistenthese 2. Jahrhundert on July 4, 2018, by H. Detering)

Elchasai and the Heresy of Colossians

This article appears to be an earlier draft (2012) of the matching chapter in The Opponents of Paul (2018)

Gnostic Elements in the Pauline Epistle

Contents

  • Title and overview of Gnostic Elements in Paul’s letters
  • Introduction
  • Phil 2:6-11 or: Jesus versus Jaldabaoth
  • 1 Corinthians 2:6-8 – Who are the “rulers of this age”?
  • 1 Corinthians 15:8 – The Apostle as a “Miscarriage”
  • Bibliography

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The following is a copy of files I produced for my own personal use in January 2022. They almost certainly will not be of a quality for general reading, but I upload them here simply because I suspect I will not get around to tidying them up for more general use and others may make allowances for their drawbacks and still find them useful:

Buddha, Joshua, Jesus — and the Way to the other Shore

The Gnostic Interpretation of the Exodus and the Beginnings of the Cult of Joshua Jesus

I could see no publisher proprietary data in my Kindle version so I have posted my machine translation in good faith, believing that this upload is not in violation of any laws.

More to come if/as permission is granted.

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