Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus : Hellenistic histories and the date of the Pentateuch / Russell E. Gmirkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gmirkin, Russell E., 1954-

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 433.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies.

Copenhagen international seminar ; 15.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 433

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Copenhagen international series ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek literature, Hellenistic.

Documentary hypothesis (Pentateuchal criticism).

Bible. Pentateuch--Authorship.

Bible.

Berosus, the Chaldean. Babylōniaka.

Berosus.

Manetho. Aegyptiaca.

Manetho.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : T&T Clark, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch. Gmirkin argues that the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credited with the Septuagint translation of the Pentateuch into Greek. The primary evidence is literary dependence of Gen. 1-11 on Berossus' Babyloniaca (278 BCE) and of the Exodus story on Manetho's Aegyptiaca (c. 285-280 BCE), and the geo-political data contained in the Table of Nations. A number of ind

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP; Chapter 2 THE DOCUMENTARY HYPOTHESIS; Chapter 3 HECATAEUS OF ABDERA; Chapter 4 ARISTOBULUS AND THE SEPTUAGINT; Chapter 5 BEROSSUS AND GENESIS; Chapter 6 THE TABLE OF NATIONS; Chapter 7 MANETHO AND THE HYKSOS; Chapter 8 MANETHO AND THE POLLUTED EGYPTIANS; Chapter 9 NECTANEBOS AND MOSES; Chapter 10 THE ROUTE OF THE EXODUS; Chapter 11 DATE AND AUTHORSHIP OF THE PENTATEUCH; Appendix A: BEROSSUS AND MEGASTHENES; Appendix B: THEOPHANES OF MYTILENE; Appendix C: THE SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH

Appendix D: THE RIVERS OF EDENAppendix E: TARSUS AND THE NORA INSCRIPTION; Appendix F: SETH-TYPHON AND THE JEWS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-309) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612005060

9781282005068

1282005065

9780567134394

0567134393

OCLC:

276306889