The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch

Featuring contributions from internationally-recognized scholars in the study of the Pentateuch, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of key topics and issues in contemporary pentateuchal scholarship. The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch considers recent debates about the formation of the Pentateuch and their implications for biblical scholarship. At the same time, it addresses a number of issues that relate more broadly to the social and intellectual worlds of the Pentateuch. This includes engagements with questions of archaeology and history, the Pentateuch and the Samaritans, the relation between the Pentateuch and other Moses traditions in the Second Temple period, the Pentateuch and social memory, and more. Crucially, the Handbook situates its discussions of current developments in pentateuchal studies in relation to the field's long history, one that in its modern, critical phase is now more than two centuries old. By showcasing both this rich history and the leading edges of the field, this collection provides a clear account of pentateuchal studies and a fresh sense of its vitality and relevance within biblical studies, religious studies, and the broader humanities.

Joel Baden, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale University,Jeffrey Stackert, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Chicago

Joel Baden is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University.


Jeffrey Stackert is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago.

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List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Convergences and Divergences in Contemporary Pentateuchal Research, Joel S. Baden and Jeffrey Stackert
Part I:Text and Early Reception
2. The Pentateuch: Five Books, One Canon, Olivier Artus
3. The Text of the Pentateuch, Sidnie White Crawford
4. The Pentateuch in Second Temple Judaism, John J. Collins
5. The Relevance of Moses Traditions in the Second Temple Period, Molly M. Zahn
6. The Pentateuch and the Samaritans, Magnar Kartveit
7. The Greek Translation of the Pentateuch, C?cile Dogniez
Part II: The Formation of the Pentateuch
8. The Beginnings of a Critical Reading of the Pentateuch, Jean-Louis Ska
9. The Graf-Kuenen-Wellhausen School, Rudolf Smend
10. The Documentary Hypothesis, Baruch J. Schwartz
11. Form and Tradition Criticism, Thomas B. Dozeman
12. Defining and Identifying Secondary Layers, Reinhard G. Kratz
13. Positions on Redaction, Reinhard M?ller
14. The Priestly Writing(s): Scope and Nature, Jakob W?hrle
15. The Place of Deuteronomy in the Formation of the Pentateuch, Udo R?tersw?rden
16. The Relationship of the Legal Codes, Jeffrey Stackert
17. The Identification of Preexilic Material in the Pentateuch, Frank Polak
18. The Identification of Postexilic Material in the Pentateuch, Rainer Albertz
Part III: The Pentateuch in Its Social World
19. The Genres of the Pentateuch and Their Social Settings, Angela Roskop Erisman
20. Ancient Near Eastern Literature and the Pentateuch, David P. Wright
21. The Pentateuch: Archaeology and History, Israel Finkelstein
22. Pentateuchal and Ancient Near Eastern Ritual, Yitzhaq Feder
23. The Imperial Context of the Pentateuch, Mark Brett
24. The Pentateuch outside the Pentateuch, Reinhard Achenbach
25. The Pentateuch as/and Social Memory of 'Israel' in the Late Persian Period, Ehud Ben Zvi
26. The Pentateuch as 'Torah', James W. Watts
Index