The Pentateuch
Subtitle: international perspectives on current research
By: edited by Thomas B. Dozeman, Konrad Schmid and Baruch J. Schwartz
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 78; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 78.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9783161506130
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Congresses
Notes: Proceedings of a symposium, held on January 10-12, 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Current issues in methodology. Does recent scholarship's critique of the documentary hypothesis constitute grounds for its rejection? / Baruch J. Schwartz; title: Has European scholarship abandoned the documentary hypothesis? : some reminders on its history and remarks on its current status / Konrad Schmid; title: The Pentateuch in current research : consensus and debate / Reinhard G. Kratz; title: Scribal processes of corrdination/harmonization and the formation of the first hexateuch(s) / David M. Carr; title: Dating pentateuchal texts and the perils of pseudo-historicism / Benjamin D. Sommer; title: The limits of interpretation / Jean-Louis Ska; title: Genesis. Genesis 1:1-2:3 and the development of the Pentateuch / Thomas Krüger; title: Text- and reception-historical reflections on transmissional and hermeneutical techniques in Genesis 2-3 / Michaela Bauks; title: Source criticism in the primeval history of Genesis : an outdated paradigm for the study of the Pentateuch? / Jan Christian Gertz; title: Is the "J" primeval narrative an independent composition? : a critique of Crüsemann's "Die Eigenständigkeit der Urgeschichte" / Ronald Hendel; title: Rachel, Leah, and the composition of Genesis / Sarah Shectman; title: Righteousness in the Joseph story : Joseph resists seduction (Genesis 39) / Christoph Levin; title: Exodus-Deuteronomy. The late exilic book of Exodus (Exodus 1-34*) : a contribution to the pentateuchal discussion / Rainer Albertz; title: The priestly wilderness itineraries and the composition of the Pentateuch / Thomas B. Dozeman; title: The decalogue and the composition history of the Pentateuch / Erhard Blum; title: The literary development of Deuteronomy 12 : between religious ideal and social reality / Simeon Chavel; title: The deuteronomic evidence for the documentary theory / Joel S. Baden; title: P, H, and D. An eternal covenant with circumcision as its sign : how useful a criterion for dating and source analysis? / Saul M. Olyan; title: Who edited the Pentateuch? / Israel Knohl; title: Distinguishing innerbiblical exegesis from pentateuchal redaction : Leviticus 26 as a test case / Jeffrey Stackert; title: P, source or redaction : the evidence of Numbers 25 / Itamar Kislev; title: The laws about clean and unclean animals in Leviticus and Deuteronomy and their place in the formation of the Pentateuch / Christophe Nihan; title: 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; title: Reading Genesis after Samuel / Graeme Auld; title: Extra-pentateuchal biblical evidence for the existence of a Pentateuch? : the case of the "historical summaries," especially in the Psalms / Thomas Römer; title: Using Ezra's time as a methodological pivot for understanding the rhetoric and functions of the Pentateuch / James W. Watts; title: Parallel torahs and inner-scriptural interpretation : the Jewish and Samaritan Pentateuchs in historical perspective / Gary N. Knoppers.