Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Convergences and Divergences in Contemporary Pentateuchal Research, Joel S. Baden and Jeffrey Stackert
Part I:Text and Early Reception
2. The Pentateuch: Five Books, One Canon, Olivier Artus
3. The Text of the Pentateuch, Sidnie White Crawford
4. The Pentateuch in Second Temple Judaism, John J. Collins
5. The Relevance of Moses Traditions in the Second Temple Period, Molly M. Zahn
6. The Pentateuch and the Samaritans, Magnar Kartveit
7. The Greek Translation of the Pentateuch, Cécile Dogniez
Part II: The Formation of the Pentateuch
8. The Beginnings of a Critical Reading of the Pentateuch, Jean-Louis Ska
9. The Graf-Kuenen-Wellhausen School, Rudolf Smend
10. The Documentary Hypothesis, Baruch J. Schwartz
11. Form and Tradition Criticism, Thomas B. Dozeman
12. Defining and Identifying Secondary Layers, Reinhard G. Kratz
13. Positions on Redaction, Reinhard Müller
14. The Priestly Writing(s): Scope and Nature, Jakob Wöhrle
15. The Place of Deuteronomy in the Formation of the Pentateuch, Udo Rüterswörden
16. The Relationship of the Legal Codes, Jeffrey Stackert
17. The Identification of Preexilic Material in the Pentateuch, Frank Polak
18. The Identification of Postexilic Material in the Pentateuch, Rainer Albertz
Part III: The Pentateuch in Its Social World
19. The Genres of the Pentateuch and Their Social Settings, Angela Roskop Erisman
20. Ancient Near Eastern Literature and the Pentateuch, David P. Wright
21. The Pentateuch: Archaeology and History, Israel Finkelstein
22. Pentateuchal and Ancient Near Eastern Ritual, Yitzhaq Feder
23. The Imperial Context of the Pentateuch, Mark Brett
24. The Pentateuch outside the Pentateuch, Reinhard Achenbach
25. The Pentateuch as/and Social Memory of 'Israel' in the Late Persian Period, Ehud Ben Zvi
26. The Pentateuch as 'Torah', James W. Watts
Index