The Pentateuch: international perspectives on current research

The Pentateuch is both the literary capstone and the central core of the Hebrew biblical canon. It contains many of the best known and most influential literary texts of world literature. A firm conclusion of biblical research is that the sweeping narrative of the Pentateuch that begins with creatio...

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Other Authors: Dozeman, Thomas B. (Editor) , Schmid, Konrad (Editor) , Shṿarts, Barukh Yaʿaḳov (Editor)
Format: Conference Paper Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck 2011
Series:Forschungen zum Alten Testament 78
In: Forschungen zum Alten Testament (78)

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Author Notes:edited by Thomas B. Dozeman, Konrad Schmid and Baruch J. Schwartz
Table of Contents:
  • Current issues in methodology. Does recent scholarship's critique of the documentary hypothesis constitute grounds for its rejection? Baruch J. Schwartz
  • Has European scholarship abandoned the documentary hypothesis? : some reminders on its history and remarks on its current status Konrad Schmid
  • The Pentateuch in current research : consensus and debate Reinhard G. Kratz
  • Scribal processes of corrdination/harmonization and the formation of the first hexateuch(s) David M. Carr
  • Dating pentateuchal texts and the perils of pseudo-historicism Benjamin D. Sommer
  • The limits of interpretation Jean-Louis Ska
  • Genesis. Genesis 1:1-2:3 and the development of the Pentateuch Thomas Krüger
  • Text- and reception-historical reflections on transmissional and hermeneutical techniques in Genesis 2-3 Michaela Bauks
  • Source criticism in the primeval history of Genesis : an outdated paradigm for the study of the Pentateuch? Jan Christian Gertz
  • Is the "J" primeval narrative an independent composition? : a critique of Crüsemann's "Die Eigenständigkeit der Urgeschichte" Ronald Hendel
  • Rachel, Leah, and the composition of Genesis Sarah Shectman
  • Righteousness in the Joseph story : Joseph resists seduction (Genesis 39) Christoph Levin
  • Exodus-Deuteronomy. The late exilic book of Exodus (Exodus 1-34*) : a contribution to the pentateuchal discussion Rainer Albertz
  • The priestly wilderness itineraries and the composition of the Pentateuch Thomas B. Dozeman
  • The decalogue and the composition history of the Pentateuch Erhard Blum
  • The literary development of Deuteronomy 12 : between religious ideal and social reality Simeon Chavel
  • The deuteronomic evidence for the documentary theory Joel S. Baden
  • P, H, and D. An eternal covenant with circumcision as its sign : how useful a criterion for dating and source analysis? Saul M. Olyan
  • Who edited the Pentateuch? Israel Knohl
  • Distinguishing innerbiblical exegesis from pentateuchal redaction : Leviticus 26 as a test case Jeffrey Stackert
  • P, source or redaction : the evidence of Numbers 25 Itamar Kislev
  • The laws about clean and unclean animals in Leviticus and Deuteronomy and their place in the formation of the Pentateuch Christophe Nihan
  • Pentateuch in the Hebrew Bible and its history of reception. "A prophet like Moses" (Deuteronomy 18:15), "no prophet like Moses" (Deuteronomy 34:10) : some observations on the relation between the Pentateuch and the latter prophets Reinhard Achenbach
  • Reading Genesis after Samuel Graeme Auld
  • Extra-pentateuchal biblical evidence for the existence of a Pentateuch? : the case of the "historical summaries," especially in the Psalms Thomas Römer
  • Using Ezra's time as a methodological pivot for understanding the rhetoric and functions of the Pentateuch James W. Watts
  • Parallel torahs and inner-scriptural interpretation : the Jewish and Samaritan Pentateuchs in historical perspective Gary N. Knoppers.