Conjectures sur les memoires originaux
Subtitle: dont il paroit que Moyse s'est servi pour composer le livre de la Genese : avec des remarques qui appuient ou qui éclaircissent ces conjectures.
Contributors: Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez Fricx, imprimeur de Sa Mayesté, vis-à-vis l'Eglise de la Madelaine [i.e. Chez P. Guillaume Cavelier]
Published: 1753
Place of publication: A Bruxelles [i.e. A Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Moses -- (Biblical leader); Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Documentary hypothesis (Pentateuchal criticism)
Other titles: Bible. O.T. Genesis. French. 1753.
Notes: Published anonymously, with a false imprint. Written by Astruc and published by Cavelier in Paris. Cf. Barbier

Includes French translation of the text of Genesis and of Exodus (ch. 1-2 only), in columns.

Astruc separates Genesis into those passages that use "Elohim" for God's name ("A") from those that use "Jehovah" for God's name ("B") and also separates out those that do not mention God ("C"), and finally those passages that are outside the history of the Hebrew people where no name for God is employed ("D").

Signatures: pi² *A1 a⁶(-a6) A¹²(-A1.12+*) B-Y¹².

Folded leaves given number of preceding page (e.g. page "446" followed by "pag. 446." etc.)

"Conjectures sur les memoires originaux ... reflections preliminaires" p. [3]- 24, "Genese" p. 25-272, "Exode (chap. 1-2) p. 273-280, "Conjectures sur la distribution du livre de la Genese en differents memoires, telle qu'on vient de la proposer" p. [281]-495, "Table des matieres" (Index) p. [497]-525.

Includes index.

Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes, I, column 690