Genesis
A Hypertextual Commentary
Published on 8. December 2020
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-3-631-83756-6 (ISBN)
Description
This monograph demonstrates that the book of Genesis is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking consists of around 1,000 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at times also linguistic correspondences between Genesis and Deuteronomy. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Deuteronomy explains numerous surprising features of Genesis. The critical analysis of Genesis as a coherently composed hypertextual work disproves hypotheses of the existence in this writing of Priestly and non-Priestly materials or multiple literary layers.
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Persons
Bartosz Adamczewski is Associate Professor of biblical sciences at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland). He has published eleven books and numerous articles on the relationships between biblical writings and also on their relationships with historical facts.
Content
Sequential hypertextuality - Genesis and Deuteronomy - Date and place of composition - Gen 1-3 as a reworking of Deut 1:1-2:1 - Gen 4-11 as a reworking of Deut 2:2-5:33 - Gen 12:1-22:19 as a reworking of Deut 6-13 - Gen 22:20-36:43 as a reworking of Deut 14:1-23:9 - Gen 37-50 as a reworking of Deut 23:10-34:12