Genesis and the Moses story: Israel's dual origins in the Hebrew Bible
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Main Author: Schmid, Konrad 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Winona Lake, Ind. Eisenbrauns 2010
Series:Siphrut literature and theology of the Hebrew scriptures ; 3
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Item Description:Translated from German.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-425) and indexes -- Konrad Schmid is a Swiss biblical scholar who belongs to a larger group of Continental researchers proposing new directions in the study of the Pentateuch. In this volume, a translation of his Erzväter und Exodus, Schmid argues that the ancestor tradition in Genesis and the Moses story in Exodus were two competing traditions of Israel's origins and were not combined until the time of the Priestly Code--that is, the early Persian period. Schmid interacts with the long tradition of European scholarship on the Hebrew Bible but departs from some of the main tenets of the Documentary Hypothesis: he argues that the pre-Priestly material in both text blocks is literarily and theologically so divergent that their present linkage is more appropriately interpreted as the result of a secondary redaction than as thematic variation stemming from J's oral prehistory. He dates Genesis-2 Kings to the Persian period and considers it a
Physical Description:XIII, 456 S. 24 cm
ISBN:9781575061528
157506152X