商品簡介
Biblical scholars synthesize the current thinking and controversies about the number and role of works of literature embedded in the Hebrew Bible. A recent complication has been the emergence of redaction criticism, which sees the compilers and editors of the Bible as authors themselves to some degree or another, so that the boundaries between component works--so carefully charted and fiercely defended in source criticism and the tradition-historical approach--weaken and in places threaten to evaporate altogether. Four methodological studies are followed by seven case studies. The topics include the emergence and disappearance of the separation between the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic history in biblical studies, the empirical comparison and the analysis of the relationship of the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets, the cohesion and separation of books within the Enneateuch, reading Genesis 2-4 as a paradigmatic narrative, and possible literary connections between the Egyptian bondage in Exodus 1-15 and Solomon's forced labor in 1 Kings 1-12. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)