The Pentateuch: A Social-Science CommentaryA&C Black, 2004 M07 1 - 236 pages This overview of the Pentateuch reviews the various historical-critical attempts to read it that arise from notions about the social evolution of Israel's religion and culture. Is the Pentateuch an accumulation of folk traditions, a work of ancient historiography, a document legitimizing religious reform? The present book, in dialogue with competing views, advocates a compositional model that recognizes the social and historical diversity of the literary strata. It argues that a proto-Pentateuchal author created a comprehensive history from Genesis to Numbers that was written as a prologue to the Deuteronomistic History (Deuteronomy to 2 Kings) in the exilic period and later expanded by a Priestly writer to make it the foundational document of the Jerusalem temple community. |
Contents
Editors Foreword | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
Abbreviations | 13 |
1 Introduction | 15 |
Basic Features and Problems | 20 |
3 A Survey of HistoricalCritical Research on the Pentateuch | 30 |
4 New Currents in Pentateuchal Studies from 1975 to the Present | 58 |
5 Deuteronomy | 87 |
6 The Yahwist J | 112 |
7 The Priestly Writer P | 160 |
8 Law in the Pentateuch | 190 |
9 Conclusion | 211 |
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Aaron Abraham addition ancient Babylonian basic belongs biblical blessing Canaan Canaanite chronology combined conquest context corpus covenant Covenant Code creation cult cultic deity Deut Deuteronomy discussion distinction Documentary Hypothesis DtrH earlier Egypt Elohistic epic episodes exilic period Exod Exodus flood form-critical genealogy Genesis Gunkel Hebrew Hexateuch Holiness Code holy Horeb idem Isaac Israel Israelite Israelite religion itinerary Jerusalem Joseph story Joshua Judah king late later law code literary material Mesopotamia molten calf monarchy Moses motif Myth narrative nations non-P Noth's Old Testament origins parallel patriarchal stories Pentateuch Pentateuchal tradition Persian Pharaoh pre-J priestly Priestly Code priests primeval history Prologue to History promise theme promised land prophetic redactional redactor reflected reform religious scholars Second Isaiah Seters Sinai social sources strata supplement temple Ten Commandments Tetrateuch texts Theology theophany tion tradition-history Wellhausen whole worship Yahweh Yahwist