Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I

The Literary Transitions Between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges

edited by Christoph Berner and Harald Samuel

Book cover: Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I

Extent: 454 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament

Series volume number: 120

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2018)

ISBN: 9783161544033

6.57 x 9.13 inches

Price: $187.00

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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. The books of the Primary History especially constitute a larger master narrative. This raises the question of how the distribution of the text to 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 transitions between the books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges, which have obviously developed in dependency upon each other.

  • Edited by Christoph Berner
  • Edited by Harald Samuel