Torah and the Book of Numbers

ISBN-13: 9783161529474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 429 str.

Christian Frevel

Opis

The Documentary Hypothesis, which in the 20th century was the standard theory to explain the development of the Pentateuch, has been challenged from different angles. One important text corpus where new proposals have been brought into the debate is the Book of Numbers. The articles in this volume address the formation of the Book of Numbers from the earliest to the latest strata. They focus on topics like the source-source critical placement of the texts in Deuteronomy that retell events from Numbers and the status of the late priestly legal additions and their relation to prior texts of the Torah. Special attention is given to the composition of the final text of the Book of Numbers and its understanding of law and narrative.The authors of this volume partially contributed to a symposium on the topic "Torah in the Book of Numbers" at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, held on April 12-13, 2011.§Contributors:Reinhard Achenbach, Olivier Artus, Joel S. Baden, Christian Frevel, Adriane Leveen, Christophe Nihan, Eckart Otto, Thomas Pola, Jonathan Miles Robker, Thomas Römer, Aaron Schart, Ludwig Schmidt, Horst Seebass, Herbert Specht

O autorze

Born 1962; 1994 PhD; 1998 Habilitation; 1999-2004 professor for Biblical Theology at the University of Cologne; since 2004 professor for Old Testament at the Ruhr-University Bochum and since 2015 also extraordinary professor at the Department of Old Testament Studies at University of Pretoria, South Africa. Born 1956; 1993 Dr. theol.; 2001 Habilitation; since 2002 Professor for Old Testament at Dortmund University (TU); since 2005 director of the Pnuel excavation in the lower Zarka valley in Jordan. Born 1957; 1989 Dr. theol.; 1996 Habilitation; since 1999 Professor for Old and New Testament at the University-Gesamthochschule Essen; since 2003 Professor for Old and New Testament at the University Duisburg-Essen.