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Traditions at Odds explores the Pentateuch's literary impact on different biblical texts. There exist a couple of content material discrepancies among pentateuchal and non-pentateuchal texts that deal with an analogous topic. via a close research, the writer argues that the discrepancies aren't changes of pentateuchal fabric, as is usually argued, yet really symptoms of self sustaining traditions. hence, a lot of biblical literature was once written outdoor of the Pentateuch's purview. Corroborating proof is located in literature from the second one Temple interval, which additionally shows an absence of conformity to the Pentateuch. After demonstrating this independence, this research explores its implications at the composition of biblical texts and the method of canonization.
 
Marked via an interdisciplinary procedure, the research contains fresh theoretical advancements in literary and ideological feedback, in addition to ritual, historiography and textual citation. It not just presents a broader base of research, yet serves to handle a deficiency in bible study: such a lot stories of intertextuality function with little theoretical grounding, whereas experiences in ritual or historiography are in keeping with versions from the past due 19th/early twentieth centuries.

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W. Miller, The Origins of the Bible: Rethinking Canon History (New York: Paulist, 1994); James A. Sanders, Torah and Canon (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972); William Schniedewind, How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). 14. Davies, Scribes and Schools, 4. 15. , 9. 16. Ibid. 1 20 Traditions at Odds inherent to the text. The decision to canonize rests not upon the original author, but upon later tradents of the scribal culture in which literature is maintained.

On the basis of lexical and thematic connections between the two books, many view Chronicles as either a supplement or replacement of the “main” narrative 28. Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Poetry (New York: Basic Books, 1985), 62. 29. , 113. 30. ,” and “What is Stylistics and Why are they Sayings Such Terrible Things about It? Part II,” in Is there a Text in this Class? : Harvard University Press, 1980), 68–96 and 246–67. 1 24 Traditions at Odds of Samuel–Kings. Japhet contends that neither option is valid.

This point of origin would then explain why so many of the prophetic books are disorganized, even after a lengthy process of transmission. In his study of the redactional history of the prophetic texts, Terrence Collins argues that their literary unity cannot be assumed. He likens the composition of these texts to the creation of a collage, consisting of two processes. The ¿rst is the collection of various pieces of text, brought together based on the rubric of lexical or thematic similarities.

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