The term "traditioning process" has in Czech Old Testament scholarship from its very beginnings specific referential value which is connected especially with the name of Slavomil Ctibor Danek (1885-1946) who was the first teacher of the Old Testament at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague. Concerning this "process" Danek was occupied primarily with 'original' religions data contained in biblical texts. To reach them requires, according to him, to read critically present "canonical" texts against the chronological axis. As a result, astonishingly new insights about theological thought of Israel might be gained. Canonical process serves in Danek's thinking in the first instance as a line connecting present biblical text with its religiously interesting remote past. Although not that inventive as his preceptor, Milos Bic (1910-2004) pushed forward main bulk of Danek's ideas. The same applies to Jan Heller (1925-2008) who as compared with Danek advocates that the result of the discussed process, i.e. the so-called "final form" has its substantial theological importance which should be taken in biblical interpretation as a supreme hermeneutical variable. At the end of the study an opinion is expressed, that the pursued phenomenon of traditioning process ought to be carefully studied in a broader context of contemporary biblical scholarship.
