Genesis and the Moses story : Israel's dual origins in the Hebrew Bible

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Label

Genesis and the Moses story : Israel's dual origins in the Hebrew Bible

Title remainder

Israel's dual origins in the Hebrew Bible

Statement of responsibility

Konrad Schmid ; translated by James D. Nogalski

Creator

• Schmid, Konrad, 1965-

Contributor

• Nogalski, James

Subject

• Bible, Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Exodus, The
• Jews -- History -- To 1200 B.C
• Patriarchs (Bible)

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

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 redactional work that, in its present shape, is a historical introduction to the message of future hope presented in the prophetic corpus of Isaiah-Malachi

Member of

• Siphrut, 3
• Erzväter und Exodus

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

222/.1092

Index

index present

LC call number

BS573

LC item number

.S35513 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Siphrut : literature and theology of the Hebrew scriptures

Series volume

3