List of Abbreviations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Contributors 1
7. Part 1. History of Scholarship and Alternative App roaches
8. Chapter 1. A Critical Intellectual History of the Historical-Critical Paradigm in Biblical Studies 7
9. Chapter 2. The Exodus, Debt Slavery, and the Composition of the Pentateuch 26
10. Chapter 3. Egyptian Language Practice: A Model for Hebrew Poetic Use? 49
11. Chapter 4. Second-Millennium BC Cuneiform from the Southern Levant and the Literature of the Pentateuch 66
12. Chapter 5. The Hittite Treaty Prologue Tradition and the Literary Structure of the Book of Deuteronomy 73
13. Chapter 6. Memorized Covenantal Instruction and Legal Reuse in Torah 95
14. Chapter 7. The Liturgical Function of Dates in the Pentateuch 113
15. Part 2. Exegetical Studies
16. Chapter 8. In the Tradition of Moses: The Conceptual and Stylistic Imprint of Deuteronomy on the Patriarchal Narratives 133
17. Chapter 9. Was Moses the Last Prophet? An Analysis of a Neo-Documentarian Interpretation of Document E 159
18. Chapter 10. Revisiting the Literary Structure(s) of Exodus 173
19. Chapter 11. Was Leviticus Composed by Aaronide Priests to Justify Their Cultic Monopoly? 195
20. Chapter 12. The Reception of Priestly Laws in Deuteronomy and Deuteronomy’s Target Audience 213
21. Chapter 13. The Relevance of Ezekiel and the Samaritans for Pentateuchal Composition: Converging Lines of Evidence 226
22. Bibliography 245
23. Ancient Source Index 273
24. Subject Index 291