{"title":"The Relevance of Moses Traditions in the Second Temple Period","authors":"M. Zahn","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198726302.013.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198726302.013.5","url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers the array of Moses traditions in the Second Temple period and their relationship to the Pentateuch. It begins with a discussion of the pluriformity of the pentateuchal text during this period. It then turns to pentateuchal figures and themes in non-pentateuchal texts, analyzing their impact on questions of canon and authority. The essay also examines the term “Torah” itself, demonstrating that, even in the late Second Temple period, this term was not coterminous with the Pentateuch. It concludes with suggestions for how scholarship might take fuller advantage of the insights provided by the Second Temple period texts and manuscripts.","PeriodicalId":373986,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122667129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Text of the Pentateuch","authors":"S. W. Crawford","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198726302.013.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198726302.013.3","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reconstructs the history of the text of the Pentateuch from the extant evidence available, starting with a brief inscription from the seventh century BCE and ending with the medieval Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch. It begins with an overview of the available textual evidence. There follows a history of text-critical theories concerning the development of the text of the Pentateuch, finishing with the author’s own reconstruction of that development. Finally, the essay ends with a brief discussion of the relevance of this textual data to the current debate concerning the composition of the Pentateuch.","PeriodicalId":373986,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124573661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pentateuch: Five Books, One Canon","authors":"Olivier Artus","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198726302.013.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198726302.013.2","url":null,"abstract":"This essay investigates the division of the Pentateuch into five scrolls of unequal length. It considers the dating of this division and the structuring that it creates, especially in relation to the Pentateuch’s narrative cycles; it also considers the ways that the combined text reflects its earlier compositional history. Finally, the essay considers the evidence for understanding each pentateuchal scroll/book as well as the Pentateuch overall as a literary unit. In the latter discussion, it gives special attention to the book of numbers.","PeriodicalId":373986,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128200861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Documentary Hypothesis","authors":"B. J. Schwartz","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198726302.013.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198726302.013.10","url":null,"abstract":"The Documentary Hypothesis was the most influential and widespread theory of the composition of the Pentateuch for most of the twentieth century. This essay examines the literary indicators that underlie the Documentary Hypothesis, the development of the theory, and its salient claims and features.","PeriodicalId":373986,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126688661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}