The origins of the Hebrew Bible: Some new answers to old questions

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-108

  Van Seters, John ^a  

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EID: 67649312024     PISSN: 15692116     EISSN: 15692124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156921207781375132     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. See Brevard S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979)
2. James A. Sanders, Canon and Community: A Guide to Canonical Criticism (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984)
3. For a recent discussion of the current debate see L. M. McDonald and J. A. Sanders, eds., The Canon Debate (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2002)
4. J. Van Seters, The Edited Bible (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006), chap. 9
5. idem, Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
6. See a full discussion of this issue in Thomas, Oral Tradition, 34-94, esp. 49-51
7. See B. A. van Groningen, Mnemosyne 16 (1963) 1-17
8. R. Pfeiffer, The History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford: Clarendon, 1968), 58
9. Van Seters, The Edited Bible, 18
10. See T. Römer and A. de Pury, "L'historiographie deutéronomiste (HD): Histoire de la recherche et enjeux du débat," A de Pury, T. Römer and Jean-Daniel Macchi, eds., Israël construit son histoire (Le monde de la Bible, 34; Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1996), 9-120
11. S. L. McKenzie, "Deuteronomistic History," ABD 2:160-68
12. See U. Schorn, Ruben und das System der zwölf Stämme Israels (BZAW 248; Berlin: W. De Gruyter, 1997)
13. A much more cautious picture of literacy in pre-exilic Israel is presented by David Carr, Writing on the Tablet of the Heart, 111-34
14. N. Na'aman, "The Debated Historicity of Hezekiah's Reform in the Light of Historical and Archaeological Research," ZAW 107 (1995), 179-95. After reviewing all the evidence Na'aman concludes that there was no such religious reform in the time of Hezekiah and that it was merely Dtr's invention
15. For extensive comparison on the social legislation in Deuteronomy, the Holiness Code and the Covenant Code see J. Van Seters, A Law Book for the Diaspora (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)
16. See W. McKane, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah, ICC. Vol. 1. Introduction and Commentary on Jeremiah I-XXV. (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1986), 186
17. How the Bible, 105-106
18. On itineraries see G. I. Davies, The Way of the Wilderness: A Geographical Study of the Wilderness Itineraries in the Old Testament (SOTSMS 5; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, !979)
19. J Van Seters, The Life of Moses (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1994) 153-64
20. For a detailed critical review of this unit see E. W. Nicholson, God and His People (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 164-78
21. also Van Seters, The Life of Moses, 282-85
22. See Thomas, Oral Tradition and Written Record, 45-51
23. The arguments for literary dependence have been set forth in great detail by M. Malul, The Comparative Method in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Legal Studies (AOAT 227; Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1990)
24. I have also discussed the history of this debate in J. Van Seters, A Law Book for the Diaspora (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 29-44
25. See Van Seters, A Law Book, 56-57, 95-99
26. see also D. P. Wright, "The Laws of Hammurabi as a Source for the Covenant Collection (Exodus 20:23-23:19)," MAARAV 10 (2003), 11-87
27. See my book, The Edited Bible
28. See O. Lipschits, The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah under Babylonian Rule (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005), 149-54, 181-84, 349-59