Intratextual Exegesis in the Primeval History – the Literary Function of the Genealogies in View of the Formation of Gen 1–11
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Michaela Bauks
Zusammenfassung
Untersuchungen zur Intratextualität in der Urgeschichte zeigen das kreative Zusammenspiel der Traditionen bis in die antike Rezeption. Anhand des Toledotbuchs (Gen 5,1 ff.) lassen sich verschiedene Modi der Ergänzung aufzeigen, um die einzelnen Traditionen miteinander zu verbinden. Insbesondere die Figuren Adam, Noah und Henoch haben in kompositioneller wie theologischer Hinsicht tragende Funktion für Gen 1–11 und finden in der antiken jüdischen Rezeptionsgeschichte breite Entfaltung. Die Interpretationen der Brüche und Inkohärenzen in den antiken jüdischen Texten lassen auf die schrittweise Entstehung des kanonischen Textes schließen.
Abstract
The article examines how an old toledot scroll beginning in Gen 5,1 is progressively enlarged by further notices and other genealogical elements that serve to conflate the different traditions within to the Primeval History. Three names, Adam, Enoch and Noah bind the different traditions together. Although the extensions in chapter 5 are generally attributed to P, several of them include a cross-over to non-P-material: e. g., 5:29 points back to 3:17 and mentions YHWH instead of Elohim. This and other additions probably come from later redactors (see 2,4a) who composed the ensemble of Gen 1–11.
Résumé
Cet article examine comment l’ancien livre des Toledot qui commence en Gn 5,1 s’est progressivement développé en reliant des traditions d’origines disparates. Des figures venant de traditions indépendantes, telles qu’Adam, Noé et Enoch, apparaissent à plusieurs reprises et deviennent des pierres angulaires de la composition de l’histoire primordiale (Gn 1–11). L’histoire de la réception dans les traditions juives de l’antiquité permet d’identifier et d’interpréter les fissures et incohérences conservées dans la forme finale des textes bibliques et de reconstituer la formation de l’ensemble.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Aufsätze
- Intratextual Exegesis in the Primeval History – the Literary Function of the Genealogies in View of the Formation of Gen 1–11
- To Be or to Have a nephesh?
- Othniel, David, Solomon: Additional Evidence of the Late Development of Normative Tribal Concepts in the South
- Der Tempelweihspruch Salomos (I Reg 8,12–13/LXX III Bas 8,53): Ein neuer Vorschlag
- The Thunder of the Prophets: Elijah and Elisha’s גה’’ר (1Kgs 18:42; 2Kgs 4:34–35)
- There is No »Fear« in »the Fear of the LORD«: Translating יראה as εὐσέβεια in Old Greek Isaiah
- Proverbia de Animalibus: The Greek Rendering of Hebrew Animal Names in Proverbs
- Mitteilungen
- Who Anointed Whom in Numbers 35:25?
- Jehu, Horses, Camels, and Job: The Meaning of šip‘at
- The Sabbath as The Seventh day of the Week and a Day of Rest: Since When?
- Zeitschriften- und Bücherschau
