“After These Things” and its Composition in Genesis
As a formulaic phrase that appears in Genesis to connect sequential narratives, critics have attributed “after these things” to a single literary stratum or to redactional insertions into developing narrative blocks. Drawing upon the other attestations of “after these things” from the biblical corpu...
| Published in: | Vetus Testamentum |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Vetus Testamentum
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Genesis
/ Time awareness
/ Chronology
/ Compounding (Textual linguistics)
/ Journalistic editing
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Genesis
chronology
lexicography
stock phrase
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | As a formulaic phrase that appears in Genesis to connect sequential narratives, critics have attributed “after these things” to a single literary stratum or to redactional insertions into developing narrative blocks. Drawing upon the other attestations of “after these things” from the biblical corpus, this article explains that “after these things” in Genesis may be viewed as a stock phrase, one that a composer or a redactor may employ in the absence of quantifiable chronological data to express the passage of an indefinite amount of time between two consecutive events. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341331 |