Genesis and the Moses story
Subtitle: Israel's dual origins in the Hebrew Bible
By: Konrad Schmid ; translated by James D. Nogalski.
Contributors: Nogalski, James.
Series: Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Bible -- 3
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781575061528
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Patriarchs (Bible); Exodus, The; Jews -- History -- To 1200 B.C
Work titles: Erzväter und Exodus.
Description: Konrad Schmid is a Swiss biblical scholar who belongs to a larger group of Continental researchers proposing new directions in the study of the Pentateuch. In this volume, a translation of his Erzväter und Exodus, Schmid argues that the ancestor tradition in Genesis and the Moses story in Exodus were two competing traditions of Israel's origins and were not combined until the time of the Priestly Code--that is, the early Persian period. Schmid interacts with the long tradition of European scholarship on the Hebrew Bible but departs from some of the main tenets of the Documentary Hypothesis: he argues that the pre-Priestly material in both text blocks is literarily and theologically so divergent that their present linkage is more appropriately interpreted as the result of a secondary redaction than as thematic variation stemming from J's oral prehistory. He dates Genesis-2 Kings to the Persian period and considers it a redactional work that, in its present shape, is a historical introduction to the message of future hope presented in the prophetic corpus of Isaiah-Malachi.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.