Publication at Catholic Theological Faculty |
2009
Abstract
Fr Vincent Zapletal OP (1867-1938), a Czech Old Testament scholar, is one of the most important pioneers of the historic-critical method in the catholic exegesis. As many others, even he had to search for another field of interest during the era of modernism crisis.
During the 1920s, Fr Zapletal published six biblical novels, written in German, where he gives the account of the lives of the great figures of the Old Testament: Moses, David, Joseph. The paper studies the motivations for writing these novels, their literary qualities, the censorship of the novels and the reception of the novels after they were published.