From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond
Essays on the Study of the Pentateuch
1st Edition
Published on 28. May 2024
404 pages
978-3-16-163224-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume collects thirteen essays by David M. Carr which join the study of the formation of the Pentateuch with research on other topics, from material history to animal studies. It begins with a detailed history of the last half-century of scholarship on the formation of the Pentateuch along with more general essays on the rationale for such study and on other methodological issues in Pentateuchal research. Two subsequent sections collect essays on intertextuality and on the material history of the five-scroll Pentateuchal collection. The volume concludes with essays linking such research with other areas, e.g. the question of the "author" in literary studies and questions about relations between humans and other animals in animal studies. Each chapter is prefaced with an introduction providing background on the context and problems addressed in the essay.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Table of Contents
- List of Charts
- List of Figures
- Liste of Tables
- Introduction
- Part One: Background, Aims and Methodology of Diachronic Analysis of the Pentateuch
- 1. Changes in Pentateuchal Criticism
- 2. On the Meaning and Uses of the Category of 'Diachrony' in Exegesis
- 3. Data to Inform Ongoing Debates About the Formation of the Pentateuch: From Documented Cases of Transmission History to a Survey of Rabbinic Exegesis
- 4. Looking at Historical Background, Redaction, and Possible Bad Writing in Gen 6,1-4: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis
- Part Two: Studies in Relations Between Texts
- 5. Method in Determination of Direction of Dependence: An Empirical Test of Criteria Applied to Exodus 34,11-26 and its Parallels
- 6. Method in Determining the Dependence of Biblical on Non-Biblical Texts
- 7. The Many Uses of Intertextuality in Biblical Studies
- Part Three: The Broader Pentateuch and a Scroll Approach
- 8. Writing That Dares Not Speak Its Name: Writing About Orality and Inscribed Amulet Practice in Ancient Israelite Educational Texts
- 9. Joseph Between Ancestors and Exodus: A Gradual Process of Connection
- 10. The Formation of the Moses Story: Literary-Historical Reflections
- 11. Background and Aims of a Scroll Approach to the Formation of the Hebrew Bible
- Part Four: Building Beyond Study of the Formation of the Pentateuch
- 12. Rereading Anonymous Oral-written Pentateuchal Prose in a Post-author 21st Century Context: Strategies and Goals for Historically-oriented Interpretation
- 13. Competing Construals of Human Relations with "Animal" Others in the Primeval History (Genesis 1-11)
- List of Original Publications
- Bibliography
- Index of Select Topics and Texts
