13 Facts About Sigmund Mowinckel

Sigmund Olaf Plytt Mowinckel was a Norwegian professor, theologian and biblical scholar.

Sigmund Mowinckel was noted for his research into the practice of religious worship in ancient Israel.

For most of his professional life Sigmund Mowinckel was connected to the University of Oslo and continued to lecture there as an emeritus in the 1960's.

Sigmund Mowinckel explained the Psalms as wholly cultic, both in origin and in intention.

Sigmund Mowinckel attempted to relate more than 40 psalms to a hypothetical New Year autumn festival, the so-called "Enthronement Festival of Yahweh".

Sigmund Mowinckel suggests that the authors of the Psalms were temple singers.

Sigmund Mowinckel did however deny the title of Messiah to the reigning Hebrew kings, although they reflected the Messianic ideal.

Sigmund Mowinckel considers the songs of the Suffering Servant in the Old Testament.

Sigmund Mowinckel accepts the common understanding of the servant songs, according to tradition, as signifying atonement and vicarious suffering.

Sigmund Mowinckel identifies the servant as a historical character from the circle surrounding Isaiah and Second Isaiah.

Sigmund Mowinckel finds the servant free of kingly traits and concludes that the songs were not originally meant to be Messianic.

However, Sigmund Mowinckel disagrees with other scholars, such as Joachim Jeremias, that the Son of Man represents an atoning suffering and death.

Sigmund Mowinckel suggests that Jesus adapted both the concept of the Son of Man and the figure of the Servant, but in a paradoxical way.