Garton Mirages in the Desert

The Tradition-historical Developments of the Story of Massah-Meribah
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-046335-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 492, 332 Seiten

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The story of Massah-Meribah is a pluriform tradition within the Hebrew Bible. Part One of this book uses redaction analysis to assess diachronically the six reminiscences of this tradition within Deuteronomy (Deut 6:16; 8:15; 9:22; 32:13, 52; 33:8). The relative chronological relationship of these texts, and the tradition components they preserve, reveals a framework of five formative stages of this story's tradition-history from the perspective of the tradents responsible for the production of Deuteronomy. Part Two is a redactional study of the tradition's narratives in Exod 17:1-7 and Num 20:1-13. Special attention is devoted to the texts that anchor the Massah-Meribah narratives into the Pentateuch. In the end, Part Two not only corroborates the framework detected in Deuteronomy for the formative stages of the Massah-Meribah tradition, but it also carries broad implications for the formation of the Pentateuch in general and the Wilderness Narrative in particular.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Hebrew Bible, Biblical Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garton, Roy E.

Über Autor(innen)

Roy E. Garton, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.

Roy E. Garton, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.