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Book Description
- Title:
- Pentateuchal Criticism Today. RTSF Monographs
- Author:
- T. Desmond Alexander
- Publication Year:
- 1998
- Location:
- Leicester
- Publisher:
- Religious and Theological Students Fellowship
- ISBN:
- 01870137264
- Pages:
- 83
- Subjects:
- Pentateuch, Law, Old Testament, Higher Criticism, Documentary Hypothesis
- Copyright Holder:
- T. Desmond Alexander
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Rise of the Documentary Hypothesis
- The Older Documentary Hypothesis
- The Fragmentary Hypothesis
- The Supplementary Hypothesis
- The New Documentary Hypothesis
- The Documentary Hypothesis of Graf, Kuenen and Wellhausen
- Models for explaining the composition of the Pentateuch
- Distinctive vocabulary
- The divine names in Genesis
- Doublets
- Implications for the history of Israelite religion
- Conclusion
- Going behind the documents
- Form-criticism
- Traditio-historical criticism
- The limitations of traditio-historical criticism illustrated
- The Documentary Hypothesis under threat
- Modifications to the Documentary Hypothesis
- Alternatives to the Documentary Hypothesis
- Conclusion
- Why was the Pentateuch composed?
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