Mirages in the Desert : The Tradition-historical Developments of the Story of Massah-Meribah

The story of Massah-Meribah is a pluriform tradition within the Hebrew Bible. Part One of this book uses redaction analysis to assess diachronically the six reminiscences of this tradition within Deuteronomy (Deut 6:16; 8:15; 9:22; 32:13, 52; 33:8). The relative chronological relationship of these texts, and the tradition components they preserve, reveals a framework of five formative stages of this story's tradition-history from the perspective of the tradents responsible for the production of Deuteronomy. Part Two is a redactional study of the tradition's narratives in Exod 17:1-7 and Num 20:1-13. Special attention is devoted to the texts that anchor the Massah-Meribah narratives into the Pentateuch. In the end, Part Two not only corroborates the framework detected in Deuteronomy for the formative stages of the Massah-Meribah tradition, but it also carries broad implications for the formation of the Pentateuch in general and the Wilderness Narrative in particular. Introduction. The Texts Of The Massah-meribah Tradition -- The Diversity Of The Tradition In The Hebrew Bible -- The Gap In Scholarship -- Within Classic Historical-critical Studies -- Wihin Revisionist Studies -- Part. I. Deuteronomy As The Foundation. Preliminary Considerations -- Tje M-mt's Reminiscences Within Deuteronomy's Interior Prologue -- The M-mt's Reminiscences Within Deuteronomy's Exterior Miscellaneous Epilogues -- Part Ii. Beyond Deuteronomy : The M-mt In The Remainder Of The Pentateuch. Toward Assessing The M-mt Texts In The Remainder Of The Pentateuch -- The Non-p M-mt Narrative In Exodus 17:1-7 And Its Related Texts -- The Priestly M-mt Narrative In Numbers 20:1-13 And Its Related Texts -- Conclusion. Roy E. Garton. A Slightly Revised Version Of My Doctoral Dissertatation, Submitted Under The Same Title To Baylor University In The Spring Of 2015--acknowledgments. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 269-292) And Indexes. In English With Occasional Hebrew, Some Of Which Is Translated Into English. In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind. The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world The story of Massah-Meribah is a pluriform tradition within the Hebrew Bible. This book uses redaction analysis to assess diachronically the six reminiscences of this tradition within Deuteronomy and thereby reconstruct the formative stages of this story's tradition history.