Retelling the Torah: The Deuternonmistic Historian's Use of Tetrateuchal NarrativesThe Deuteronomistic Historian patterned more than four dozen of his narratives after those in Genesis-Numbers. The stories that make up Genesis-Numbers were indelibly impressed on the Deuteronomistic Historian's mind, to such an extent that in Deuteronomy-Kings he tells the stories of the nation through the lens of Genesis-Numbers. John Harvey discusses the eight criteria which may be used as evidence that the given stories in Deuteronomy-Kings were based on those in Genesis-Numbers. Unified accounts in the Deuteronomistic History, for instance, often share striking parallels with two or more redactional layers of their corresponding accounts in Genesis-Numbers, showing that the given accounts in the Deuteronomistic History were written after the corresponding accounts in Genesis-Numbers had been written. Furthermore, the Deuteronomistic Historian calls the reader's attention to accounts in Genesis-Numbers by explicitly citing and referring to them, by using personal names, and by drawing thematic and verbal parallels. Retelling the Torah, the first book to focus on these parallel narratives, contains far-reaching implications for Hebrew Bible scholarship. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 DTRs USE OF HIS TORAH IN DEUTERONOMY 13 | 7 |
Chapter 2 THE GENESIS OF THE PARALLEL NARRATIVES | 33 |
Chapter 3 DTRS TORAHCONSCIOUSNESS | 54 |
Chapter 4 INVERSION OF TORAH SCHEMATA | 66 |
Chapter 5 JUDGMENT AND TORAH SCHEMATA | 82 |
CONCLUSION | 96 |
Appendix | 101 |
Bibliography | 103 |
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Aaron Abihu Abraham account in Deuteronomy account in Numbers Amnon argued ark narrative assumed knowledge Balaam Biblical Caleb Canaan Chapter circumcision command concerns conclusion conquest corresponding Tetrateuchal accounts criterion Danites daughter David deliverance Deut Deuteronomy 1-3 direction of dependence Dtr based Dtr drew Dtr patterned Dtr's Dtr's Torah DtrH Edom Egypt Egyptians Elijah Esau Exod Exodus Exodus story fathers Former Prophets Garsiel Genesis Genesis 18 Gideon given Tetrateuchal accounts Hadad Hebrew Hophni and Phinehas incongruity instances Isaac Israel Israelites Jacob Jeroboam Josh Joshua Judges 19 king Laban Laish language layer Levite LORD LORD's messengers Moab Moses Nabal Nadab Numbers 11 parallel narratives parallels shared Pharaoh Philistines Phinehas plagues narrative promised land proposed direction Rahab rape reference Rehoboam rejection Samuel 25 Saul Saul's schemata Seters share parallels Shechem Sihon similarly Sodom Solomon spies Tamar Tetrateuchal accounts texts Torah traditions Transjordan verbal parallels Whereas wilderness ואת יהוה ישראל