The Resource The Yahwist : a historian of Israelite origins, by John Van Seters
The Yahwist : a historian of Israelite origins, by John Van Seters
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- Summary
- This book on the Yahwist comes at the end of a long career of research on the Pentateuch in general and the Yahwist in particular. Van Seters's interest in the Yahwist was stimulated by the 1964 presidential address of the Society of Biblical Literature, given by Professor Fredrick Winnett, "Rethinking the Foundations", which focused on the Yahwist in Genesis. This interest followed a path of work on issues surrounding the Yahwist that culminated in three volumes, Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis (1992), The Life of Moses: The Yahwist as Historian in Exodus--Numbers (1994), and A Law Book for the Diaspora: Revision in the Study of the Covenant Code (2003). Over the last few years, it has become clear to Van Seters that readers of the three volumes on the Yahwist, which total more than 1,000 pages, easily lose sight of the Yahwist's work as a whole and the way in which it provides a historical prologue and framework for D and the DtrH. In this book, Van Seters seeks to provide a summary sketch of the J history and to make clear how the Priestly corpus has been composed as a supplement to the Yahwist with a radically different form and point of view that has obscured the Yahwist's historical narrative and theological perspective. Part one lays out in simple terms the basic form, structure, and theological perspective of the Yahwist's history, where it has been interrupted by the inclusions of P, and how it is integrated into DtrH. The essays in part two are intended to bring the scholarly discussion of Van Seters's earlier books on the Yahwist more up to date, and their order corresponds roughly to the order of the narrative in the first part of the book. Some of these articles have been published previously, but others are new and quite recent
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 380 pages
- Contents
-
- The primeval history from creation to the Tower of Babel
- The history of the patriarchs
- The sojourn in Egypt and the Exodus
- From the Red Sea to Sinai
- Israel at Sinai
- The desert journey from Sinai to Kadesh
- The final push : from Kadesh to the Jordan River
- Observations on J's sources, literary techniques, and ideological perspective
- Is there any historiography in the Hebrew Bible? : a Hebrew-Greek comparison
- Author or redactor?
- The report of the Yahwist's demise has been greatly exaggerated
- The Yahwist flood story and the Babylonian flood tradition
- The covenant of Abraham in Genesis 15
- The silence of Dinah (Genesis 34)
- The Joseph story : some basic observations
- The Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 1-5) within the larger context of the Yahwist's history
- The itinerary from Egypt to the Jordan River : a study in J's historiography
- The altar law of Exodus 20:24-26 in critical debate
- The tent of meeting in the Yahwist's Sinai-wilderness story : a test case
- Deuteronomy between Pentateuch and the deuteronomistic history
- Isbn
- 9781575062860
- Label
- The Yahwist : a historian of Israelite origins
- Title
- The Yahwist
- Title remainder
- a historian of Israelite origins
- Statement of responsibility
- by John Van Seters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book on the Yahwist comes at the end of a long career of research on the Pentateuch in general and the Yahwist in particular. Van Seters's interest in the Yahwist was stimulated by the 1964 presidential address of the Society of Biblical Literature, given by Professor Fredrick Winnett, "Rethinking the Foundations", which focused on the Yahwist in Genesis. This interest followed a path of work on issues surrounding the Yahwist that culminated in three volumes, Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis (1992), The Life of Moses: The Yahwist as Historian in Exodus--Numbers (1994), and A Law Book for the Diaspora: Revision in the Study of the Covenant Code (2003). Over the last few years, it has become clear to Van Seters that readers of the three volumes on the Yahwist, which total more than 1,000 pages, easily lose sight of the Yahwist's work as a whole and the way in which it provides a historical prologue and framework for D and the DtrH. In this book, Van Seters seeks to provide a summary sketch of the J history and to make clear how the Priestly corpus has been composed as a supplement to the Yahwist with a radically different form and point of view that has obscured the Yahwist's historical narrative and theological perspective. Part one lays out in simple terms the basic form, structure, and theological perspective of the Yahwist's history, where it has been interrupted by the inclusions of P, and how it is integrated into DtrH. The essays in part two are intended to bring the scholarly discussion of Van Seters's earlier books on the Yahwist more up to date, and their order corresponds roughly to the order of the narrative in the first part of the book. Some of these articles have been published previously, but others are new and quite recent
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Van Seters, John
- Dewey number
- 222/.1066
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BS1181.4
- LC item number
- .V37 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- J document (Biblical criticism)
- Label
- The Yahwist : a historian of Israelite origins, by John Van Seters
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-364) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The primeval history from creation to the Tower of Babel -- The history of the patriarchs -- The sojourn in Egypt and the Exodus -- From the Red Sea to Sinai -- Israel at Sinai -- The desert journey from Sinai to Kadesh -- The final push : from Kadesh to the Jordan River -- Observations on J's sources, literary techniques, and ideological perspective -- Is there any historiography in the Hebrew Bible? : a Hebrew-Greek comparison -- Author or redactor? -- The report of the Yahwist's demise has been greatly exaggerated -- The Yahwist flood story and the Babylonian flood tradition -- The covenant of Abraham in Genesis 15 -- The silence of Dinah (Genesis 34) -- The Joseph story : some basic observations -- The Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 1-5) within the larger context of the Yahwist's history -- The itinerary from Egypt to the Jordan River : a study in J's historiography -- The altar law of Exodus 20:24-26 in critical debate -- The tent of meeting in the Yahwist's Sinai-wilderness story : a test case -- Deuteronomy between Pentateuch and the deuteronomistic history
- Control code
- 000396087
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 380 pages
- Isbn
- 9781575062860
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013028164
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 000396087
- (OCoLC)854848102
- Label
- The Yahwist : a historian of Israelite origins, by John Van Seters
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-364) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The primeval history from creation to the Tower of Babel -- The history of the patriarchs -- The sojourn in Egypt and the Exodus -- From the Red Sea to Sinai -- Israel at Sinai -- The desert journey from Sinai to Kadesh -- The final push : from Kadesh to the Jordan River -- Observations on J's sources, literary techniques, and ideological perspective -- Is there any historiography in the Hebrew Bible? : a Hebrew-Greek comparison -- Author or redactor? -- The report of the Yahwist's demise has been greatly exaggerated -- The Yahwist flood story and the Babylonian flood tradition -- The covenant of Abraham in Genesis 15 -- The silence of Dinah (Genesis 34) -- The Joseph story : some basic observations -- The Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 1-5) within the larger context of the Yahwist's history -- The itinerary from Egypt to the Jordan River : a study in J's historiography -- The altar law of Exodus 20:24-26 in critical debate -- The tent of meeting in the Yahwist's Sinai-wilderness story : a test case -- Deuteronomy between Pentateuch and the deuteronomistic history
- Control code
- 000396087
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 380 pages
- Isbn
- 9781575062860
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013028164
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 000396087
- (OCoLC)854848102
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