The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary

The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Editors\' Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Bibliography......Page 16
1. The Pentateuch in Outline......Page 21
2. General Observations on the Pentateuch as a Whole......Page 24
a. The Priestly/Non-Priestly Content Dichotomy......Page 25
c. The Use of the Divine Name......Page 26
e. Consistency, Coherence and Cohesion in the Unity of a Text......Page 28
4. Basic Models for Compositional Reconstruction......Page 29
Bibliography......Page 31
1. The Rise of the Documentary Hypothesis to Wellhausen......Page 32
a. The Unity, Nature and Extent of J......Page 37
b. Was There an E Document?......Page 38
c. The Nature and Unity of P and its Relationship to D......Page 39
d. Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History......Page 40
e. The Documentary Hypothesis and the Problem of Redactors......Page 41
3. The Rise of Form-Criticism and the Tradition-History\rof the Pentateuch......Page 42
4. Tradition-History: Gerhard von Rad and Martin Noth......Page 46
5. A Critique of Form-Criticism: Oral Tradition......Page 48
6. A Critique of the Tradition-History Method......Page 49
7. The Pentateuch and the Albright School......Page 51
8. A Critique of the Albright School......Page 54
Bibliography......Page 59
a. J. Van Seters......Page 60
c. R. Rendtorff......Page 63
2. The Traditio-Historical Problem of the Pentateuch......Page 64
a. The Promises to the Patriarchs......Page 65
a. Folkloristic Forms: Gunkel to Westermann on Genesis......Page 69
b. National Epic: The Albright-Cross School......Page 71
c. Historiography: Van Seters......Page 72
d. Literacy and Orality and the Form-Critical Question......Page 73
4. Current Models of Literary Criticism......Page 75
a. The Documentarians......Page 76
b. The Block-Composition Model: Rendtorff, Blum......Page 77
c. New Supplementary Model: Van Seters......Page 78
a. The Dating of P......Page 81
b. Unity or Diversity in P......Page 82
c. P as a Separate Source or a Supplement......Page 83
d. Where does P end?......Page 85
e. The Existence of a Final Redactor of the Pentateuch......Page 86
Bibliography......Page 88
1. Basic Features......Page 89
a. Form......Page 90
3. Additional Literary Observations......Page 91
4. Deuteronomy, the Deuteronomistic History and the\rTetrateuch......Page 94
5. The Origins of Deuteronomy......Page 96
6. Treaty and Covenant in Deuteronomy and the Ancient\rNear East......Page 100
a. Centralization of Worship (Deuteronomy 12)......Page 102
b. From Monolatry to Monotheism......Page 104
c. The \'Promised Land\'......Page 106
d. Election and Covenant (Deuteronomy 7.6-11; 9.1-5; 26.16-18)......Page 107
e. Prophetism: Moses as Model Prophet......Page 109
f. Militarism: Holy War—Purity of the Land (7.1-5; 20)......Page 111
g. The Law Code—A Nation of \'Brothers\'......Page 112
Bibliography......Page 113
1. National \'Antiquities\' as a Literary Form......Page 114
2. Myth and History......Page 116
3. The Primeval History......Page 117
a. The Social Context of the Yahwist\'s Primeval History......Page 123
a. The Basic Structure of the Patriarchal History......Page 124
b. The Compositional History of J\'s Patriarchal Stories......Page 127
c. The Social Context of J\'s Patriarchal History......Page 136
a. The Basic Structure of the Life of Moses......Page 140
b. The Composition History of the Story of Moses......Page 142
c. The Social Context of J\'s Life of Moses......Page 152
Bibliography......Page 161
b. Form......Page 162
c. Structure......Page 163
a. P in the Primeval History......Page 165
b. P in the Patriarchal Stories......Page 169
c. P in the Exodus Story......Page 170
d. P in the Wilderness Tradition......Page 172
e. P in the Sinai Pericope......Page 173
f. P and the Conquest of the Promised Land......Page 175
a. The Problem of P\'s Origin......Page 178
b. Identity and Covenant in P......Page 184
c. The Promised Land and Settlement of the Tribes......Page 187
d. The Tabernacle and the \'Glory\' (Kābôd) of Yahweh......Page 188
4. Conclusion......Page 189
1. Introduction......Page 191
2. Types of Laws......Page 192
3. The Law Codes......Page 194
a. The D Code (Deuteronomy 12-26)......Page 195
b. The Covenant Code (Exodus 20.22-23.33)......Page 200
c. The Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26)......Page 203
4. The Ten Commandments, Exodus 20.1-17 (P) =\rDeuteronomy 5.6-21 (D)......Page 210
9. Conclusion......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 215
Index of References......Page 224
Index of Authors......Page 232