A Hasmonean Edition of MT Genesis?: The Implications of the Editions of the Chronology in Genesis 5
Many biblical scholars have endorsed the view that the MT chronology provides evidence for a Hasmonean edition of the Hebrew Bible. A review of the scholarship and the biblical texts shows that there is no warrant for such a view. The chronological details that provide the support for this view - wh...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
2012
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Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
Year: 2012, Volume: 1, Issue: 4, Pages: 448-464 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Justification
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/ Bible. Genesis 5
/ Old Testament
/ Old Testament
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism HH Archaeology |
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| Summary: | Many biblical scholars have endorsed the view that the MT chronology provides evidence for a Hasmonean edition of the Hebrew Bible. A review of the scholarship and the biblical texts shows that there is no warrant for such a view. The chronological details that provide the support for this view - which come down to three ancestors in the MT chronology of Genesis 5 - are explicable as the result of scribal revisions motivated by a local exegetical problem. The other editions of the Genesis 5 chronology (in SP and LXX) are parallel solutions to the same problem - ancestors who outlive the flood - a paradox that arguably derives from the compositional history of the P source. The chronological revisions in Genesis derive not from Hasmonean eschatology but from impossible numbers in P. |
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| ISSN: | 2192-2284 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/219222712805363999 |