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CODE: THO 3160 TITLE: Pentateuch and Historical Books CREDITS: 3 cr. TERM: Winter 2010 PROFESSOR: Yvan Mathieu After addressing a few introductory questions (What is the Bible? What is the difference between Old and New Testament? What is exegesis? Diachronic and synchronic approaches), we will read a few chosen texts from the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible): Prehistory (Gen 1-11), Abraham (Gen 12:1- DESCRIPTION 25:11), the Exodus event (Ex 1:1-15:21), the Sinai Covenant (Ex 19-24). We shall conclude with a brief survey of the deuteronomistic history (Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings). We will address the major questions raised by exegetes regarding the composition of the Pentateuch. S Introduce students to the Bible, to its different parts and to the need for a critical reading. S Introduce students to the different exegetical methods so that they will be able to apply them to a given text. S Understand certain difficult texts of the Pentateuch that OBJECTIVES have an incidence upon our choices in life as believers today. S Discover that the Old Testament is essential to a correct understanding of the New Testament. It is a not an optional reading for Christians. S Three short papers (4 pages each). Each paper is worth 20 % of the final mark. S Due dates: beginning of the fourth class WORKLOAD beginning of the eight class beginning of the twelfth class S Final exam (oral or written) Papers: 60 % (3 x 20 %) EVALUATION Final exam: 40 % REQUIRED An annotated edition of the Bible TEXTS RECOMMENDED SKA, Jean-Louis, Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch, TEXTS Wynona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 2006. THO 3160 Pentateuch and Historical Books Saint Paul University, Ottawa Winter 2010 Bibliography The Pentateuch in general ALEXANDER T. Desmond, From Paradise to the Promised Land. An Introduction to the Main Themes of the Pentateuch, Grand Rapids, Baker, 1995, 22002. ALEXANDER, T. Desmond (Editor); BAKER, David W. (Editor), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, Downers Grove, IL; Leicester, U.K.: InterVarsity, 2003. BLENKINSOPP Joseph, The Pentateuch : An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible, New York, Doubleday, 1992. BLENKINSOPP Joseph, “ Introduction to the Pentateuch ”, in The New Interpreter's Bible. A Commentary in Twelve Volumes. Volume One. General Articles on the Bible. General Articles on the Old Testament. The Book of Genesis. The Book of Exodus. The Book of Leviticus, Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1994, p. 305-318. ––––––––, “ Deuteronomistic Contribution to the Narrative in Genesis-Numbers. A Test Case ”, in SCHEARING Linda S. / MCKENZIE Steven L. (ed.s), Those Elusive Deuteronomists. The Phenomenon of Pan-Deuteronomism (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 268), Sheffield, Sheffield University Press, 1999, p. 84-115 ––––––––, “ The Pentateuch ”, in BARTON John (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation (The Cambridge Companion to Religion), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 181-197. ––––––––, “ Was the Pentateuch the Civic and Religious Constitution of the Jewish Ethnos in the Persian Period? ”, in Watts James W. (ed.), Persia and Torah. The Theory of Imperial Authorization of the Pentateuch (Society of Biblical Literature. Symposium Series 17), Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2001, p. 41-62. BRETTLER Marc Zvi, The Creation of History in Ancient Israel , London / New York, Routledge, 1995. CAMPBELL Antony F. / O'BRIEN Mark A., Rethinking the Pentateuch. Prolegomena to the Theology of Ancient Israel, Louisville, Kentucky, Westminster John Knox Press, 2005. CHERRY, Shai, Torah through Time : Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times, Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society, 2007. CLINES David J.A., “ God in the Pentateuch: Reading against the Grain ”, in CLINES David J.A., Interested Parties. The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible (Gender, Culture, Theory 1), Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995, p. 187-211. CROATTO José Severino, “ The Function of the Non-Fulfilled Promises: Reading the Pentateuch from the Perspective of the Latin-American Oppressed People ”, in KITZBERGER Ingrid Rosa (ed.), The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation, London, Routledge, 1999, p. 38-52. DAVIES Graham, “ Covenant, Oath, and the Composition of the Pentateuch ”, in MAYES A.D.H. / SALTERS R.B. (ed.), Covenant as Context. Essays in Honour of E.W. Nicholson, Oxford et alii, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 71-89. EMERTON John A. (ed.), Studies in the Pentateuch (Vetus Testamentum. Supplements 41), Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1990. /2 FEWELL Danna Nolan (ed.), Reading between Texts. Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible (Literary currents in biblical interpretation) , Louisville, Kentucky, Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992. FREEDMAN David Noel, “ The Pentateuch ”, in DUNN James D.G. / ROGERSON John W. (ed.), Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible, Grand Rapids/Cambridge, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003, p. 25-31. FRETHEIM Terence E., The Pentateuch (Interpreting Biblical Texts), Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1996. FRIEDMAN Richard Elliot, “ Some Recent Non-Arguments Concerning the Documentary Hypothesis ”, in FOX Michael V. (ed.), Texts, Temples and Traditions. A Tribute to Menahem Haran, Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1996, p. 87-101. ––––––––, Commentary on the Torah with an English Translation, San Francisco, Harper San Francisco, 2001. GOODER Paula, The Pentateuch. A Story of Beginnings (The Continuum Biblical Studies Series), London, Continuum, 2000. GREIFENHAGEN Franz V., Egypt on the Pentateuch’s Ideological Map. Constructing Biblical Israel’s Identity (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 361), London / New York, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2003. GMIRKIN, Russell E., Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus : Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies), New York ; London : T & T Clark, 2006. HARAN Menahem, “ Book-Size and the Thematic Cycles in the Pentateuch ”, in BLUM Erhard / MACHOLZ Christian / STEGEMANN Ekkehard W. (ed.), Die Hebräische Bibel und ihre zweifache Nachgeschichte. Festschrift für Rolf Rendtorff zum 65. Geburtstag, Neukirchen-Vluyn, Neukirchener Verlag, 1990, p. 165-176. HIRSCH Samson Raphael / ORATZ Ephraim / HIRSCHLER Gertrude, The Pentateuch , New York, Judaica Press, 1990. KLINGBEIL, Gerald A. (Editor), Inicios, paradigmas y fundamentos : Estudios teológicos y exegéticos en el Pentateuco (Serie Monográfica de Estudios Biblicos y Teológicos de la Universidad Adventista del Plata 1), Libertador San Martín, Argentina : Editorial Universidad Adventista del Plata, 2004. KNAUF Ernst Axel, “ Towards an Archaeology of the Hexateuch ”, in GERTZ Jan Christian / SCHMID Konrad / WITTE Markus (ed.), Abschied vom Jahwisten. Die Komposition des Hexateuch in der jüngsten Diskussion (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 315), Berlin / New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2002, p. 275-294. KOOREVAAR Hendrik, “ The Torah as One, Three or Five Books: An Introduction to the Macro- Structural Problem of the Pentateuch ”, HIPHIL Old Testament, 3 (2006). LE ROUX, J. (Editor); OTTO, Eckhart (Editor), A Critical Study of the Pentateuch : An Encounter between Europe and Africa (Altes Testament und Moderne 20), Münster : LIT Verlag, 2005. LEFEBVRE, Michael, Collections, Codes, and Torah : The Re-Characterization of Israel's Written Law (Library of Hebrew Bible/OT Studies 451), New York ; London : T & T Clark, 2006. LEVINSON, Bernard M. (Editor); KNOPPERS, Gary N. (Editor), The Pentateuch as Torah : New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance, Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns, 2007. LICHTENSTEIN Moshe, Moses: Envoy of God, Envoy of His People : Leadership and Crisis from the Exodus to the Plains of Moab, Jersey City, NJ ; Alon Shevut, Israel : Yeshivat Har Etzion, 2008 /3 LINDEN Nico ter, The Story Goes…, Vol. 1. The Stories of the Torah, London, SCM Press, 1999. LOADER James Alfred, “ The Redactional Manifestation of Pentateuchal Theology ”, Old Testament Essays, 11/3 (1998), p. 487-498. MACBRIDE S. Dean, “ Perspective and Content in the Study of Pentateuchal Legislation ”, in MAYS James Luther / PETERSEN David L. / RICHARDS Kent Harold (ed.), Old Testament Interpretation. Past, Present, and Future. Essays in Honor of Gene M. Tucker, Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1995, p. 47-59. MCDERMOTT John J., Reading the Pentateuch. A Historical Introduction, New York / Mahwah, Paulist Press, 2002. MOBERLY R. Walter L., The Old Testament of the Old Testament. Patriarchal Narratives and Mosaic Yahwism (Overtures to Biblical Theology ) , Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1992. MILLS Watson E. (ed.), Mercer Commentary on the Bible, Volume 1. Pentateuch/Torah, Macon, Mercer University Press, 1998. MULLEN Theodore E., Ethnic Myths and Pentateuchal Foundations. A New Approach to the Formation of the Pentateuch (Society of Biblical Literature. Semeia Studies), Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1997. NIHAN, Christophe, From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch : A Study in the Composition of the Book of Leviticus (FAT 2.25), Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2007. OTTO Eckart, “ The Pentateuch in Synchronic and Diachronical Perspectives: Protorabbinic Scribal Erudition Mediating Between Deuteronomy and the Priestly Code ”, in OTTO Eckart / ACHENBACH Reinhard (ed.), Das Deuteronomium zwischen Pentateuch und Deuteronomistischem Geschichtswerk (Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Test,amentes 206), Göttingen,
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