Pentateuch, Hexateuch, or Enneateuch?: Identifying Literary Works in Genesis Through Kings (Society of Biblical Literature. Ancient Israel and Its Liter) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589835425 ISBN 13: 9781589835429

Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011

Synopsis

The identification of literary works in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets is a hallmark of the modern historical-critical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The theories of a Tetrateuch, a Hexateuch, or a Deuteronomistic History have played a central role in recovering the literary history of the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets. The breakdown of these methodologies in recent research has forced scholars to reevaluate the criteria for identifying literary works in the formation of the Hebrew Bible. The present volume explores anew, without presupposition or exclusion, the criteria by which interpreters identify literary works in these books as a resource for recovering the composition history of the literature. It also brings North American and European approaches to the topic into a common discussion. The contributors are Christoph Berner, Erhard Blum, Suzanne Boorer, David M. Carr, Thomas B. Dozeman, Cynthia Edenburg, Michael Konkel, Christoph Levin, Thomas Römer, Konrad Schmid, and Felipe Blanco Wißmann.

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About the Author:

Thomas B. Dozeman is Professor of Hebrew Bible at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of Methods in Biblical Interpretation: The Book of Exodus (Cambridge University Press), Exodus. The Eerdmans Critical Commentary (Eerdmans), and, with Konrad Schmid, the editor of A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation (Society of Biblical Literature). Thomas Römer is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Lausanne and the Collège de France, Paris. He is the author of Israels Väter: Untersuchungen zur Väterthematik im Deuteronomium und in der deuteronomistischen Tradition (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), Dieu obscur: Cruauté, sexe, et violence dans l'Ancien Testament (Labor et Fides), and The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction (T&T Clark). Konrad Schmid is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Zürich. He is the author of Literaturgeschichte des Alten Testaments: Eine Einführung (WBG), Hiob als biblisches und antikes Buch: Historische und intellektuelle Kontexte seiner Theologie (Katholisches Bibelwerk), and Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel's Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible (Eisenbrauns).

About this edition

• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1589835425
• ISBN 13: 9781589835429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Dozeman Thomas B., Schmid Konrad, R. Mer Thomas