Mirages in the desert : the tradition-historical developments of the story of Massah-Meribah / Roy E. Garton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garton, Roy E., author.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Band 492.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; Band 492

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Deuteronomy--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Moses (Biblical leader)--Biblical teaching.

Moses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The story of Massah-Meribah is a pluriform tradition within the Hebrew Bible. Part One of this book uses redaction analysis to assess diachronically the six reminiscences of this tradition within Deuteronomy (Deut 6:16; 8:15; 9:22; 32:13, 52; 33:8). The relative chronological relationship of these texts, and the tradition components they preserve, reveals a framework of five formative stages of this story's tradition-history from the perspective of the tradents responsible for the production of Deuteronomy. Part Two is a redactional study of the tradition's narratives in Exod 17:1-7 and Num 20:1-13. Special attention is devoted to the texts that anchor the Massah-Meribah narratives into the Pentateuch. In the end, Part Two not only corroborates the framework detected in Deuteronomy for the formative stages of the Massah-Meribah tradition, but it also carries broad implications for the formation of the Pentateuch in general and the Wilderness Narrative in particular.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Preliminary Considerations

Chapter Three: The M-Mt’s Reminiscences within Deuteronomy’s Interior Prologue

Chapter Four: The M-Mt’s Reminiscences within Deuteronomy’s Exterior Miscellaneous Epilogues

Chapter Five: Toward Assessing the M-Mt Texts in the Remainder of the Pentateuch

Chapter Six: The Non-P M-Mt Narrative in Exodus 17:1–7 and its Related Texts

Chapter Seven: The Priestly M-Mt Narrative in Numbers 20:1–13 and its Related Texts

Chapter Eight: Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Bibliography

Index of names

Index of ancient sources

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110462661

3110462664

9783110463354

3110463350

OCLC:

973834989