The scribes of the Torah : the formation of the Pentateuch in its literary and historical contexts / Konrad Schmid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmid, Konrad, 1965- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Ancient Israel and its literature ; no. 45.

Ancient Israel and its literature ; number 45

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Bible. Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Pentateuch--Authorship.

P document (Biblical criticism).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 927 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : SBL Press, [2023]

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

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.

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 763-884) and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781628374322 (electronic bk.)

1628374322 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40031792849

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