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The literary history of the Pentateuch : collected essays / Joel S. Baden.
Van Pelt Library BS1225.52 .B33 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baden, Joel S., 1977- author.
- Series:
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 0940-4155 187.
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 0940-4155 ; 187
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Pentateuch--History.
- Bible. Pentateuch.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Physical Description:
- xii, 298 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Joel Baden critically examines the Pentateuch's narrative contradiction, its compositional complexity, and its theological richness. Through source-critical analysis and historical contextualization, the author presents the Pentateuch as a cohesive yet multifacted literary work, inviting deeper scholarly engagement."-- Publisher, back cover of dust jacket.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Why is the Pentateuch unreadable; or, why are we doing this anyway?
- Continuity between the gaps : the Pentateuch and the Kirta Epic
- A narrative pattern and its role in source criticism
- An unnoticed nuance in Genesis 2:21-22
- The Tower of Babel : a case study in the competing methods of historical and modern literary criticism
- The morpho-syntax of Genesis 12:1-3 : translation and interpretation
- The death of Isaac
- The continuity of the priestly narrative from Genesis to Exodus
- Evaluating the "transition" between Genesis and Exodus
- From Joseph to Moses : the narratives of Exodus 1-2
- Identifying the original stratum of P : theoretical and practical considerations
- The original place of the priestly manna story in Exodus 16
- On Exodus 33:1-11
- The purpose of purification in Leviticus 16 : a proposal pertaining to priestly prepositions
- The structure and substance of Numbers 15
- Source stratification, secondary additions, and the documentary hypothesis in the Book of Numbers : the case of Numbers 17
- The narratives of Numbers 20-21
- The Deuteronomic evidence for the documentary theory
- Deuteronomy reads the Pentateuch
- Sources without authors
- Secondary additions : form and function.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- e-book version
- ISBN:
- 9783161634680
- 3161634683
- OCLC:
- 1525719363
- Publisher Number:
- 9783161634680
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