Sigmund Mowinckel, the Norwegian student of the critic Hermann Gunkel, put forward his theory of the enthronement festival in 1922. Few scholarly publications have ever had either the immediate impact or the lasting influence on the field as Mowinckel's theory. In one of the earliest reviews of his work, Hans Schmidt accepted Mowinckel' s theory as the background to the enthronement Psalms with great enthusiasm. Some of the main arguments used against Mowinckel' s reconstruction include: The Old Testament does not mention a New Year's enthronement festival, so such a festival is an unattested, unproven, and unnecessary hypothetical reconstruction; and if one accepted Mowinckel' s reconstruction, it would imply that Israel shared the cyclic, mythical outlook of other Ancient Near Eastern religions, that they saw Yahweh as a dying and rising God, and that they believed that there was a time when Yahweh was not yet ruler of the universe.
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J. J. M. Roberts (2005) studied this question.