Mirages in the Desert

The Tradition-historical Developments of the Story of Massah-Meribah
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-11-063715-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 492, 316 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

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

Scholars of the Hebrew Bible, Biblical Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garton, Roy E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Roy E. Garton, Baylor University, TX, U.S.A.

Roy E. Garton, Baylor University, TX, U.S.A.