New evidence for “The Biblical Kierkegaard”? Several key annotations in Kierkegaard’s Greek New Testaments and their implications

Abstract Kierkegaard possessed at least thirty-two volumes of Bibles. The three available for inspection contain extensive annotations of various kinds, evidencing a fastidious and exhaustive student. Of particular interest for this article are two editions of the Greek New Testament, and what they demonstrate about the author’s intimate knowledge of intertextuality in the Biblical text, and his easy familiarity with Hebrew and Koine Greek. This new evidence enlivens the debate about the “Biblical Kierkegaard.” Having presented the archival findings, the article goes on to apply that evidence to Kierkegaard’s arguments concerning temporality—in Øieblikket (“the moment”) and “the fullness of time,” particularly pertinent to The Concept of Anxiety and Philosophical Fragments. Both manifest a far deeper awareness of their Biblical texture than has been perceived in scholarship to date.