Pentateuch, Hexateuch, or Enneateuch?

Thomas B. Dozeman is Professor of Hebrew Bible at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of Methods in Biblical Interpretation: The Book of Exodus (Cambridge University Press), Exodus. The Eerdmans Critical Commentary (Eerdmans), and, with Konrad Schmid, the editor of A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation (Society of Biblical Literature). Thomas Römer is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Lausanne and the Collège de France, Paris. He is the author of Israels Väter: Untersuchungen zur Väterthematik im Deuteronomium und in der deuteronomistischen Tradition (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), Dieu obscur: Cruauté, sexe, et violence dans l’Ancien Testament (Labor et Fides), and The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction (T&T Clark). Konrad Schmid is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Zürich. He is the author of Literaturgeschichte des Alten Testaments: Eine Einführung (WBG), Hiob als biblisches und antikes Buch: Historische und intellektuelle Kontexte seiner Theologie (Katholisches Bibelwerk), and Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel’s Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible (Eisenbrauns).

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Introduction
Thomas B. Dozeman, Th omas Romer, and Konrad Schmid

Methodological Studies
The Emergence and Disappearance of the Separation between the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic History in Biblical Studies
Konrad Schmid
How Many Books (teuchs): Pentateuch, Hexateuch, Deuteronomistic History, or Enneateuch?
Th omas Romer
Pentateuch–Hexateuch–Enneateuch? Or: How Can One Recognize a Literary Work in the Hebrew Bible?
Erhard Blum
“Empirical” Comparison and the Analysis of the Relationship of the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets
David M. Carr

Case Studies
The Envisioning of the Land in the Priestly Material: Fulfi lled Promise or Future Hope?
Suzanne Boorer
On the Cohesion and Separation of Books within the Enneateuch
Christoph Levin
From Eden to Babylon: Reading Genesis 2–4 as a Paradigmatic Narrative
Cynthia Edenburg
Exodus 32–34 and the Quest for an Enneateuch
Michael Konkel
The Book of Joshua as an Intertext in the MT and the LXX Canons
Thomas Dozeman
Th e Egyptian Bondage and Solomon’s Forced Labor: Literary Connections between Exodus 1–15 and 1 Kings 1–12?
Christoph Berner
“He Did What was Right”: Criteria of Judgment and Deuteronomism in the Books of Kings
Felipe Blanco Wismann

Bibliography
Contributors List
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources