The Promise of the Land As Oath: A Key to the Formation of the Pentateuch (Beiheft Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft)

In this study, Suzanne Boorer provides a means of evaluating the various current and conflicting paradigms for the formation of the Pentateuch, by analyzing selected texts in Genesis to Numbers that express Yahweh's oath of the land to the ancestors, in order to determine their relative levels in relation to their surrounding contexts, in relation to each other, and in relation to their parallels in Deuteronomy. The findings generally support Wellhausen's conception, and some aspect of Noth's. Of possible interest to those studying the historical reconstruction, hermeneutics, or theology of the Old Testament. 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. BZAW welcomes submissions that make an original and significant contribution to the field; demonstrate sophisticated engagement with the relevant secondary literature; and are written in readable, logical, and engaging prose. 1. The Establishment of a Way into the Formation of the Pentateuch Via the Oath of the Land 2. The Oath of the Land in the Context of the Exodus, Ex 13:5,11 3. The Oath of the Land in the Context of Sinai, Ex 32:13 and Ex 33:1 4. The Oath of the Land in the Context of the Wilderness/Conquest Traditions, Num 14:23a and Num 32:11 5. Conclusion