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1 online resource (xii, 332 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 433
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Copenhagen international series ; 15
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies
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Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 433.
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Copenhagen international seminar ; 15.
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Methodology and history of scholarship -- The documentary hypothesis -- Hecataeus of Abdera -- Aristobulus and the Septuagint -- Berossus and Genesis -- The table of nations -- Manetho and the Hyksos -- Manetho and the polluted Egyptians -- Nectanebos and Moses -- The route of the Exodus -- Date and authorship of the Pentateuch. |
| Summary |
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch. Gmirkin argues that the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credited with the Septuagint translation of the Pentateuch into Greek. The primary evidence is literary dependence of Gen. 1-11 on Berossus' Babyloniaca (278 BCE) and of the Exodus story on Manetho's Aegyptiaca (c. 285-280 BCE), and the geo-political data contained in the Table of Nations. A number of ind. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bible. Pentateuch -- Authorship.
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Bible. Pentateuch. |
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Authorship. |
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Berosus, the Chaldean. Babylōniaka.
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Manetho. Aegyptiaca.
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Bérose, de Babylone. Babyl*oniaka. |
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Manetho. Aegyptiaca. |
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Bible. A.T. Pentateuque -- Authenticité. |
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Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature, Hellenistic. |
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Documentary hypothesis (Pentateuchal criticism)
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Documentary hypothesis (Pentateuchal criticism) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gmirkin, Russell E., 1954- Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus. New York : T & T Clark, ©2006 0567025926 9780567025920 (DLC) 2006007651 (OCoLC)64624866 |
| ISBN |
9780567134394 (electronic book) |
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0567134393 (electronic book) |
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9780567025920 |
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0567025926 (hardcover) |
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