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Evaluating the ‘Transition’ between Genesis and Exodus
- Author(s):
- Joel Baden (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Subject(s):
- Bible. Pentateuch
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Exodus, Genesis, Hebrew bible, Pentateuch
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/1njd-xv92
- Abstract:
- To begin with my thesis, or with a restatement of the title of this essay: there is no transition between Gen 50 and Exod 1. That is: the transition between Gen 50 and Exod 1 is no more distinctive from a compositional standpoint than the transition between any two chapters of the Pentateuch. That is: the transition between the narrative recounted in Gen 50 and the narrative recounted in Exod 1 is no more distinctive than the transition between any two narratives in the Pentateuch. That is: the passage of time and change in Israelite fortunes that seems to occur somewhere in the beginning of what we now call Exod 1 is entirely unremarkable from a narrative and compositional perspective.
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- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- Mohr Siebeck
- Pub. Date:
- 2018
- Book Title:
- Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I: The Literary Transitions between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges
- Author/Editor:
- Christoph Berner and Harald Samuel
- Page Range:
- 43 - 53
- ISBN:
- 978-3-16-154403-3
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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