The Oxford handbook of the Pentateuch
Featuring contributions from internationally-recognized scholars in the study of the Pentateuch, this Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of key topics and issues in contemporary pentateuchal scholarship.
| Итог: | Featuring contributions from internationally-recognized scholars in the study of the Pentateuch, this Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of key topics and issues in contemporary pentateuchal scholarship. Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of THE PENTATEUCH -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Convergences and Divergences in Contemporary Pentateuchal Research -- Introduction -- Convergences -- Compositional History as a Fundamental Question -- The Importance of Textual History -- Pentateuchal Compositions as Political Allegories -- Literary Reuse and Revision in Pentateuchal Law -- The Interrelatedness of Narrative and Law -- Post-CompilationalSupplementation -- Pre-PentateuchalCompositional Growth -- The Pentateuch in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context -- The Distinction between Priestly and Non-Priestly Texts in Genesis and Exodus -- Divergences -- The Rationale for Compositional Analysis -- The Basis for Compositional Analysis -- The Role of Oral Tradition -- The Role and Prominence of Redaction -- The Intertextuality of Pentateuchal Texts -- The Scope and Existence of a Pentateuch -- Conclusions -- Suggested Reading -- Works Cited -- Part I: TEXT AND EARLY RECEPTION -- Chapter 2: The Pentateuch: Five Books, One Canon -- Book Division and Compositional Structure in the Pentateuch -- The Preexilic Literary Materials -- The Hypothesis about a Preexilic Historiography -- The Book of Deuteronomy -- Synthesis -- Unifying Preexilic Literary Materials in Exilic and Postexilic Documents, Redactions, and Compositions -- The Priestly Texts -- Unifying Priestly and Deuteronomist Narratives -- Pentateuch, Hexateuch, Enneateuch -- The Unity and the Authority of the Pentateuch -- The Specific Function of Deuteronomy 34 -- The Character of Moses -- Key Texts -- The Global Structure of the Pentateuch and Its Meaning -- The Pentateuch: Five Books, One Canon -- Pentateuchal Logic and the "Five Books" Logic -- Literary Construction of the Beginning and of the End of the Books. |
|---|---|
| Примечание: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Объем: | 1 online resource (589 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-103975-1 |
