| Portion of title |
Formation of the Pentateuch in its literary and historical contexts |
| Series |
Ancient Israel and its literature
Ancient Israel and its literature ; no. 45. ^A1143731
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| Contents |
Preface -- Original publication information -- Part 1. The Pentateuch in the Enneateuch -- 1. Was there ever a Primary history? -- 2. Deuteronomy within the "Deuteronomistic histories" in Genesis-2 Kings -- Part 2. History of scholarship -- 3. Has European scholarship abandoned the Documentary hypothesis?: some reminders on its history and remarks on its current status -- 4. The emergence and disappearance of the separation between the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic history in biblical studies -- 5. Post-Priestly additions in the Pentateuch: a survey of scholarship -- 6. The prophets after the law or the law after the prophets?: terminological, biblical and historical perspectives -- Part 3. The formation of the Torah -- 7. Textual, historical, sociological, and ideological cornerstones of the formation of the Pentateuch -- 8. The so-called Yahwist and the literary gap between Genesis and Exodus -- 9. The Pentateuch and its theological history -- 10. The late Persian formation of the Torah: observations on Deuteronomy 34 -- 11. The Persian imperial authorization as historical problem and as biblical construct: a plea for differentiations in the current debate -- 12. How to identify a Persian-period text in the Pentateuch -- Part 4. Genesis -- 13. Genesis in the Pentateuch -- 14. The ambivalence of human wisdom: Genesis 2-3 as a sapiental text -- 15. Loss of immortality?: hermeneutical aspects of Genesis 2-3 and its early receptions -- 16. Shifting political theologies in the literary development of the Jacob cycle -- 17. Returning the gift of the promise: the "salvation-historical" sense of Genesis 22 from the perspective of innerbiblical exegesis -- 18. The Joseph story in the Pentateuch -- 19. Sapiential anthropology in the Joseph story -- |
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Part 5. The Moses story -- 20. Exodus in the Pentateuch -- 21. Taming Egypt: the impact of Persian imperial ideology and politics on the biblical exodus account -- Part 6. The Priestly document -- 22. The quest for "God": monotheistic arguments in the Priestly texts of the Hebrew Bible -- 23. From counterworld to real world: evolutionary cosmology and theology in the book of Genesis -- 24. Judean identity and ecumenicity: the political theology of the Priestly document -- 25. Sinai in the Priestly document -- Part 7. Legal texts -- 26. Divine legislation in the Pentateuch in its late Judean and neo-Babylonian context -- 27. Collective guilt?: the concept of overarching guilt relationships in the Hebrew Bible and in the ancient Near East -- 28. The monetization and demonetization of the human body: the case of compensatory payments for bodily injuries and homicide in ancient Near Eastern and ancient Israelite law books -- Part 8. The Pentateuch in the history of ancient Israel's religion -- 29. The canon and the cult: the emergence of book religion in ancient Israel and the gradual sublimation of the temple cult -- 30. Are there remnants of Hebrew paganism in the Hebrew Bible?: methodological reflections on the basis of Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and Psalm 82 -- 31. God of heaven, God of the world, and creator: God and the heavens in the literature of the Second Temple period. |
| Abstract |
"This collection of thirty-one studies on the Pentateuch represents more than twenty years of Konrad Schmid's research and publications advocating for a new view of the Pentateuch's formation. Schmid's essays present the case for a Persian period Priestly document that provided a basic narrative thread to the Torah, which included separate, pre-Priestly components of narratives in Genesis and the Moses story. Schmid's open discussion includes evidence from various fields, such as literary history, comparative cultural history, historical linguistics, epigraphy, and archaeology. The essays are divided into eight sections usefully structured around the themes of the Pentateuch in the Enneateuch, the history of scholarship, the formation of the Torah, Genesis, the Moses story, the Priestly document, legal texts, and the Pentateuch in the history of ancient Israel's religion"--Publisher, page 4 of cover. |
| General note | "Some of the texts were published originally in English; others were written in German and have now been translated into English. Unless otherwise indicated (see pp. 3 and 23), most are reprinted here with no or only slight changes or updates."--Preface, page xii. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 763-884) and indexes. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781628375237 |
| ISBN | 162837523X (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781628374315 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1628374314 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
