Book-Seams in the Hexateuch II
The Book of Deuteronomy and its Literary Transitions
edited by Christoph Berner, Stephen Germany and Harald Samuel
This volume offers the first systematic investigation of the literary transitions between the books of Numbers/Deuteronomy and Deuteronomy/Joshua. Placing a special focus on the material aspects of ancient Jewish scribal practices, it retraces the development of these literary transitions.
Biblical books, which were transmitted on separate scrolls in antiquity, are not necessarily identical with books in the modern sense of a coherent and self-contained compositional unit. Especially the books of the Primary History constitute a larger master narrative. This raises the question of how the distribution of the text over different scrolls relates to its compositional history. Were the respective books conceived as physically separate parts of a multivolume composition (whether Pentateuch, Hexateuch, Deuteronomistic History or Enneateuch) from the outset, or are we dealing with a more complex development of originally independent compositional units that were only connected or separated by later redaction? The present volume addresses these issues with respect to the book transitions of Deuteronomy, whose relatively freestanding literary shape sets it apart among the books of the Hexateuch.
- Edited by Christoph Berner
- Edited by Stephen Germany
- Edited by Harald Samuel
Other Titles in this Series
Women in the Wilderness
The 'Female Legislation' of the Book of Numbers (Num 5,11-31; 27,1-11; 30,2-17)
Volume 138
Reading Prophetic Books
Form, Intertextuality, and Reception in Prophetic and Post-Biblical Literature
Volume 89
From the Reed Sea to Kadesh
A Redactional and Socio-Historical Study of the Pentateuchal Wilderness Narrative
Volume 159
Identitatsstiftende Begegnung
Die theologische Deutung des regelmassigen Kultes Israels in der Tora
Volume 121
Gott in Bewegung
Religions- und theologiegeschichtliche Beitrage zu Gottesvorstellungen im alten Israel
Volume 76
Sunde und Vergebung
Eine Rekonstruktion der Redaktionsgeschichte der hinteren Sinaiperikope (Exodus 32-34) vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Pentateuchmodelle
Volume 58
Scribal Laws
Exegetical Variation in the Textual Transmission of Biblical Law in the Late Second Temple Period
Volume 92
Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology
Essays in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney
Volume 160
Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I
The Literary Transitions Between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges
Volume 120
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The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
Shame in the Worlds of the Hebrew Bible and Akkadian Texts
A Linguistic Study and Its Implications
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The Therapeutae as the Best Paradigm for the Contemplative Life
A Contextual Reading of Philo of Alexandria's De Vita Contemplativa
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
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Introductions historiographiques
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